What if you never had to buy, fix or maintain a furnace or air conditioner to keep your home comfortable? What if your heating and cooling worked during power outages, and you could count on it becoming more efficient and climate-friendly over time?
That’s the promise of district heating and cooling or district energy, where entire communities share a heating and cooling system. That allows them to tap into many low-carbon energy sources they couldn’t before, more efficiently than any individual building could.
“We have to move from thinking just about the building and start thinking about the society — society’s efficiency and society’s renewable
