In the border cities of Estonia and Latvia, the first cross -border heating main in Europe opened. This was announced by the ERR information portal.
Utilitas Energy group connected the boiler houses of two parts of the same city of Valga (from the Estonian side) and Valka (from the Latvian) pipe 1.6 k long, making it possible to supply heat from one country to another. Installation in a roll. Now the company controls the heat supply of both parts of the twin city, since the boiler room in Valga already belonged to it.
The head of the group Kite, the launch of the “sign investment”. An important step in the rational use of resources, ”he said.
Investments in the project amounted to almost 2 million euros and became the first private initiative for the development of cross -border heat infrastructure in the EU. It is reported that the production of heat in both parts of the city is carried out on wood chips, which made it possible to abandon the less environmentally friendly shalely oil boilers in Estonia.
according to the head of the unit of the centralized heat supply to Robert Kitt, the solution turned out to be economically justified. If there is already a larger power station on the Latvian side, it should be used as efficiently as possible, ”Kitt said.
The official opening was symbolic directly on the border: company representatives and local authorities launched a hot water crane together.
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