District Cooling
District Cooling is based on the same principle as District Heating, but instead of heat it supplies cool, fresh temperatures.
A central, environmentally friendly plant does the job instead of small cooling plants or air conditioning units which may leak, eat electricity, make a noise or take up valuable space. District Cooling is required mainly in well insulated apartments and at workplaces using computers and technical equipment generating lots of heat.
The first District Cooling plant in Sweden was commissioned in 1992. Nowadays, some thirty plants in Sweden produce District Cooling equivalent to 700 GWh. However, this figure is nowhere near the potential. Surveys show that the total demand for district cooling amounts to 2000-5000 GWh. District Cooling is – hot.