Area development: district heating and energy upgrading for the decarbonization of our towns and cities

  • The role of district heating
  • Projects for towns and cities
  • Network development
  • Innovation and research

The role of district heating

A2A district heating is accelerating the process of decarbonizaton in towns, cities and surrounding areas

District heating has a central role in the decarbonization of towns and cities because it makes it possible to heat residential and other buildings by replacing the use of traditional fossil fuels such as methane gas and diesel oil with renewable energy sources and by recovering the heat dispersed by industrial processes and the thermal disposal of waste. 

 

It is, at the same time, a key player in the energy transition process and a perfect circular economy model because it enables optimization of the use of resources, avoiding the wastage of heat and other materials, which are returned to communities as heating. 

 

For us at A2A, the sustainable development of towns and cities also depends on the ability of district heating to be increasingly efficient, flexible, integrated and renewable:

Projects for towns and cities

Protagonists of decarbonization, urban redevelopment and the energy upgrading of buildings

Our development and innovation projects for district heating networks and for the energy upgrading of buildings and entire urban areas are mainstays in decarbonization and urban redevelopment strategies in Milan, Brescia, Bergamo, Crema and Lodi.

Thanks to extended networks, the use of innovative technologies and considerable expertise in the field of buildings’ energy efficiency, we are making a substantial contribution to the reduction of CO2 emissions in these cities and are also accelerating the energy transition and circular economy processes there. 

Each area benefits from dedicated projects, designed specifically to meet local needs.

List of plants

Network development

The future of our district heating

We are creating synergies between our district heating networks and local production sectors in order to ensure the sustainable development of the area involved.

Through partnerships with local businesses, we are recovering heat which would otherwise be dispersed and transforming it for the benefit of local communities. 

We are investing in the integration of various renewable energy sources so as to ensure a greener and more resilient supply of heat for the future.

Innovation and research

For us at A2A, innovating means giving towns and cities new heat

Heat consumption in towns and cities is undergoing constant evolution. We are investing in research into new and efficient ways of producing and recovering heat through various collaboration projects with universities and with research and innovation centres. Experimentation projects are at the core of our commitment to the ecological transition.