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Finding the symbiosis in your city 

Combine waste management and heat production to create a new power generation alternative. Or connect industrial waste heat to the municipal energy plant and cut your energy costs by 50% or more. SymbioCity helps you find and unlock these assets. Here are a couple of key options to consider.

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Smart planning and energy-efficient design in homes can save you large sums of money. In industry, excess heat from industrial processes is a frequently neglected energy source waiting to be exploited instead of being released into the air or nearby watercourses.

Selling surplus energy can even provide the extra revenue a company needs to survive. Waste heat and energy is easy to recover with a district heating and cooling system (DHC).

District heating and cooling – our energy heroes

Sweden has long been an international leader in planning and designing combined heat and power plants and connecting them to district heating grids. District heating is ten times more efficient than individual household heaters and can keep entire cities warm. If Europe had the same ratio of district heating as Sweden, the European Union would outstrip its Kyoto CO₂ targets four times over.

You decide where to start

All sorts of actions can be taken at many different levels. Your city’s local conditions ultimately decide where the benefits of more effective energy production lie. Some ideas:

• Demand for energy to cool industries and offices is increasing but can be reduced through early implementation of effective urban planning, improved building design, leaner production processes and energy-efficient equipment.
• Waste incineration is a potential option for large combined heat and power systems. Great environmental care must be taken and the best available technology used to curb dioxin emissions.
• Energy utilities and industrial users can cooperate to cut peak power loads to improve energy supply reliability.
• Fermentation of biodegradable septic sludge, wastewater sludge or similar waste may be a feasible option for small and medium-scale biogas production for heating or to produce electricity or even vehicle fuel.