MITECO publishes Spain's heat map to promote efficient heating and cooling

The Institute for Diversification and Energy Saving (IDAE), an entity attached to the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the Demographic Challenge (MITECO), has published the heat map of Spain, available here. The map will promote efficient heating and cooling projects, from the moment it allows the thermal demands of all sectors of activity to be identified, as well as the installations that can generate residual heat and cold, including renewables.

The publication of the map is one of the measures of the More Energy Security Plan (Plan +SE) and is part of the actions foreseen by European regulations to identify the potential of efficient heating and cooling systems, so that the administrations and the private activity can execute projects.

The map makes it possible to know the thermal energy demands of the different consumers, as well as the points of production of residual thermal energy, so it will help to size the projects to take advantage of the available resources and obtain the greatest economic and environmental benefits.

Location of energy production and consumption

The map uses the Google Maps platform and allows you to restrict the display by municipality or by a selected area. Apply filters by location or by type of activity and the data can be viewed numerically grouped, according to the selection made. Includes:

a) The demand for heating and cooling in the energy density areas of the municipalities.

b) Existing and planned facilities that can generate residual heat or cold: generation facilities with a thermal power greater than 50 MW; cogeneration facilities with a thermal power of more than 20 MW; waste incineration plants: installations that use renewable energy sources with a thermal power of more than 20 MW; and industrial installations with a thermal power of more than 20 MW.

c) Existing and planned heating and cooling networks.

Advances in the development of the potential of efficient heating and cooling will serve to reduce energy dependence, by reducing the demand for fossil fuels through the valorization of residual heat that would otherwise not be used to meet economically justifiable heat and cold demands.