Heating and cooling network: distribution infrastructure in 2017 for Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

A heat network — also known as district heating — is an installation that distributes to several users the heat produced by one or more boiler(s), via a set of heat transport pipes (hot water pipes) and exchangers (also called substations). The heat distributed in this way is mainly used for heating and sanitary hot water in buildings; some networks also provide heat for industrial use. The principle is the same for a cooling network, which functions as a reverse heat network (instead of providing heat to buildings, the cooling network takes it). These systems are highly mobilising of renewable energies and recovery (more than half of their energy mix), and are therefore in full development, to achieve in particular the goal of multiplying by 5 the amount of renewable heat delivered by the networks of #x27; by 2030 provided for by the law of energy transition. L' state of play of existing networks, crossed with the demand for heat/cold buildings, makes it possible to project their development as best as possible by 2030. The state of play of the heating and cooling networks in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (AURA) is based on a survey of communities, unions, operators and cross-sections of different data sources (national survey, energy-climate data published, ViaSèva directory, dedicated network sites...), in 2016-2017. The data collected for each network identified in AURA, i.e. 252 heat networks, 3 refrigeration networks and 6 planned networks, are published in table form, with their sources. Cerema also collected and digitised the tracks of 96 networks, published and distributed in GIS format. __Origin__ The DREAL Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes has commissioned the Cerema to carry out an inventory of the heating and cooling networks in the region and to study their development potential, from renewable sources (wood, geothermal, solar...) and recovery (waste incineration, industrial heat, biogas...), mapped on the territory. The state of play of the heating and cooling networks in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (AURA) is based on a survey of communities, unions, operators and cross-sections of different data sources (national survey, energy-climate data published, ViaSèva directory, dedicated network sites...), in 2016-2017. The data collected for each network identified in AURA, i.e. 252 heat networks, 3 refrigeration networks and 6 planned networks, are published in table form, with their sources. __Partner organisations__ CEREMA __Links annexes__ * [basketDownloadFrontalParametrage](https://catalogue.cdata.cerema.fr/geosource/panierDownloadFrontalParametrage?LAYERIDTS=3353010) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/a30b008fdca4e290bb6da516e5773c6a96aa2e2b)