REMINDER: Invitation to the press trip on October 10th, 2024: “District heating and monastery heating in Upper Austria”

District heating plays an important role in Austria’s heating strategy. Today, 27.6 percent of all apartments are already supplied with district heating. This corresponds to around 1.1 million households that are heated with clean district heating. By 2050, a further 500,000 district heating households could be added.

The Gas Heat Association invites you to a press trip to Upper Austria on Thursday, October 10, 2024, to visit an urban and a rural district heating provider.
In the Linz Mitte power plant park you can find out more about the diversity of generation at one location, the ongoing decarbonization of district heating generation as well as the district heating density and its further expansion in Linz. Further stops include the Hofmann Personal Stadium (FC Blau Weiß Linz), which is considered a reference project for district heating, and the Benedictine monastery in Lambach, where clerical heat is generated using the in-house biomass local heating system.

Your conversation partners are:
· To. DI Josef SiliganCEO of LINZ AG
· Mag. Armin Riedereconomic director of the Benedictine monastery in Lambach
· DI Alexander Wallischspokesperson for district heating in the Gas Heat Association
· Mag. Katalin-Andrea Griessmair-FarkasDeputy Managing Director of the Gas Heat Association, consultant for district heating
· DI Clara Maria Habelerconsultant for district heating in the Gas Heat Association

Time and process:
Thursday, October 10, 2024

7:30 – approx. 10:15 a.m.:
Shuttle service from Schubertring 14, 1010 Vienna to Upper Austria

10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.:
· Linz Mitte power plant park with a visit to the biomass cogeneration plant, the waste cogeneration plant and the heat converter site
Content: Diversity of generation at one location, ongoing decarbonization of district heating generation
· Adjacent observation tower with a view of the city and the power plant site with heat storage
Content: District heating density in Linz – a success story
· Hofmann Personal Stadium (FC Blau Weiß Linz) as a district heating-supplied reference project

12:15 p.m.:
Continue to the Benedictine monastery in Lambach

1:00 p.m.:
Lunch in the Stiftskeller restaurant

from 2:00 p.m.:
Visit to the biomass local heating system in the Benedictine monastery in Lambach

3:00 p.m. – approx. 6:00 p.m.:
Return to Vienna

Please contact us by Monday, October 7, 2024, at phone number. 01-712 12 00 or send an email to info@foggensteiner.at

We look forward to your coming!