ProgRESsHEAT

Supporting the progress of renewable energies for heating and cooling in the EU on a local level

www.progressheat.eu Efficient heating and cooling in Matosinhos Energy Strategy

17/03/2016 Location and territory

Matosinhos is located in the Northern part of , in a densely populated area, just by the sea.

It is just north of , the second largest city of Portugal and belongs to the where over 1.7 million people live in 2040 km².

Matosinhos Municipality: Area - 62.3 km² Population (2014) - ~174 000 Population density - ~2800 /km²

10 km Climate

Matosinhos has a temperate Mediterranean climate with Atlantic influences. Temperatures are mild all year round (yearly average: 14.6°C)

Average temperatures (°C) Daily minimum Monthly Av. Daily maximum Coldest month (January) 5.8 9.7 13.6 Warmest month (August) 14.8 19.4 24.1 Main activities

The municipality was highly industrialized until a few decades ago, when over half the population worked in the secondary sector.

Currently, over three quarters of the population works in the services sector.

However, there is still a significant industrial presence, with over 500 industrial units in a diverse range of sectors, namely: petrochemical, food and canning, textiles, and electrical material. Infrastructures

Despite the small primary sector, fishing is still one important activity in the municipality.

It‘s location just by the sea has promoted the development of important infrastructures, such as: • Porto de Leixões (second largest sea port in the country) - commercial and tours • the International Freighy Transport Terminal (TIR) (where most of Portugal‘s imports go through) • EXPONOR exhibition centre (the largest in the country) • Porto‘s International Airport Dr. Francisco Sá Carneiro (partly in Matosinhos territory) (over 8 million passengers/year) Environmental action

In 2010 Matosinhos signed the Covenant of

Mayors, thus pledging to reduce CO2 emissions by 21% until 2020

Matosinhos‘ Action Plan for Sustainable Energy (PAES) was submitted by the end of 2012.

It presents a number of measures to meet the above target, of which the most relevant to the ProgRESsHEAT project are: • Promoting the installation of thermal and photovoltaic solar panels in buildings; • Promoting the installation of heat pumps in buildings; • Improving the urban planning under sustainability criteria;

• Promoting the voluntary reduction of CO2 emissions in the services and industrial sectors by creating a technical advisory team on energy efficiency solutions • Giving technical support and positively discriminating for more sustainable and certified building investments Project participation

Matosinhos‘ case study to be focused on energy efficiency solutions in the industry, particularly using industrial residual heat recovery and distribution to other large services buildings in close proximity. Airport Wood products‘ factory has 21 MWe Wood products fuel oil cogeneration equipment. factory (potential heat producer Recent large stores have own associated to climatization systems just across de cogeneration plant) street. Large stores and mall (potential Other potential clients close by. clients) Logistics centre to be built Petrochemical (potential client) industry (GALP)

Sea port (Porto Leixões) Exhibition centre (Exponor) Expected outcomes

The main issues and barriers in Portugal are (according to recent policy meeting): • Insufficient scale of demand in the residential sector • No tradition of centralized heat production and distribution (only Lisbon, since 1998) • Culture of individuality – preference for not depending on others • Lack of specific incentives, unlike other EE/RE measures.

The progRESsHEAT project may help: • To bring added value to a cogeneration industrial facility • To identify the best DHC configurations of a possible network for the area • To compare with other RE options that yield similar effect • To assess the merits of this innovative solution in the specific context of Matosinhos/Portugal • To identify the most suitable business models for the Portuguese reality • To overcome some eventual cooperation resistance by bringing entities together • To clarify the political and financial hurdles and suggest possible solutions

Hopefully the Matosinhos case study will extrapolate towards Portugal/SE as a whole Thank you for your attention!

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