Clean Heat - Bankwatch

Clean Heat - Bankwatch

The need to replace Europe’s dependence on fossil fuels with renewable energy sources has never been more urgent.

Heating and cooling account for half of the EU’s energy consumption. Almost three quarters of this energy comes from burning expensive, polluting fossil fuels.

Across Europe, communities large and small are working to convert their district heating systems to run on renewable energy.

Bankwatch’s new documentary, Clean Heat, showcases two front-runners in the renewable energy race – Szeged in Hungary and Salaspils in Latvia. These two towns used to be wholly dependent on fossil gas for heating. But their stories prove that district heating systems that run on solar thermal or geothermal energy, even if in part, are not the stuff of science fiction. They’re the future in the making. (...)