Coming in from the Cold [electronic resource]: Improving District Heating Policy in Transition Economies /
International Energy Agency.
International Energy AgencyContent Provider
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2004.
Coming In from the Cold provides a road map of options to help transition economy policy makers sort through key district heating issues.  It finds that district heating systems in formerly socialist countries could save the equivalent of 80 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year through supply-side efficiency improvements.  This is greater than total annual natural gas consumption in Italy!  It provides detailed suggestions regarding reforms in regulation, competition, investment policy, and ownership and management structures that could save significant amounts of energy, and thereby boost energy security and help the environment.
Description based upon print version of record.
Preliminaries; FOREWORD; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Executive Summary; 1 District Heating a Priority for the Environment Energy Security and Economic Development; 2 Key Policy Challenges; 3 Meeting the Challenges Policy Options; 4 Regulation; 5 Competition; 6 Investment Financing and the International Community; 7 Ownership and Management; 8 Cogeneration and Energy Efficiency; 9 District Heating in the National Policy Agenda; 10 Conclusions and Key Recommendations; I IEA Statistics Economic Energy and Heat Data; II District Heating Policy by Country
Coming In from the Cold provides a road map of options to help transition economy policy makers sort through key district heating issues.  It finds that district heating systems in formerly socialist countries could save the equivalent of 80 billion cubic meters of natural gas a year through supply-side efficiency improvements.  This is greater than total annual natural gas consumption in Italy!  It provides detailed suggestions regarding reforms in regulation, competition, investment policy, and ownership and management structures that could save significant amounts of energy, and thereby boost energy security and help the environment.
Heating from central stations.