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Strasbourg - Kehl: using industrial waste heat across the border, a one-of-a-kind project in Europe
October 2023
The project to recover waste heat from the Badische Stahlwerke (BSW), Kehl's steelworks, is now entering its concrete phase.
On September 19th, all those involved in the project gathered at the Port of Kehl plant to reaffirm their commitment to this unprecedented cross-border initiative: "It's a collective effort, a collective project, it's also an innovative and absolutely essential project to ensure the energy transition of our territory", declared Jeanne Barséghian, Mayor of Strasbourg and Delegate President of the Eurometropolis, but also President of Calorie Kehl-Strasbourg.
Initiated in 2018, the project brings together six German and French partners who have launched a program that is unique in Europe: to use the recovered heat (or waste heat) resulting from the production activities of the Badische Stahlwerke (BSW) steelworks, located in the port of Kehl, to supply heating to residential buildings and businesses in Strasbourg and Kehl. The aim is twofold:
- to enable almost 7,000 households in Strasbourg to heat their homes in the first phase of the project, thereby avoiding the emission of 19,600 tonnes of climate-damaging CO2 every year;
- combat "fuel poverty".
To set up the project, in June 2022 the partners created SEM Calorie Kehl-Strasbourg, a cross-border energy company that brings together the various partners: the Eurométropole de Strasbourg, the Région Grand Est, and the Caisse des dépôts et consignations (Deposits and Consignments Fund) on the French side, and Kehl, the Land of Baden-Württemberg and the Badische Stahlwerke on the German side.
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