IRELAND IS THE worst country in the EU at using renewable energy to heat things up and cool things down.
District heating can be powered by fossil fuels, but also works very well with renewable sources, which has garnered it favour in some countries’ plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike the Poolbeg-fuelled plan for the Docklands, however, the Tallaght scheme was carried out in partnership with an Amazon Web Services data centre and will be powered by waste heat that the data centre creates.
He said that current development is being “partly driven by the data centre industry” but that he believes that “isn’t the way we should be developing district heating”. Additionally, he suggests that reliance on private enterprises for energy supplies can render systems “quite vulnerable”. “I think if district heating systems are going to be developed and if they are going to be built to use waste heat from data centres, then those data centres should pay for a large part of those district heating systems,” Dr Bresnihan said.
‘We have to get the best out of them’ In Denmark, district heating accounts for 46% of domestic heating and hot water consumption.
Yes yes but you know they be a charge even thou us tax payers are paying for them
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No Fuck off Stealing our precious reserves.
Yes yes it should.