Last week I was challenged by our CTO here at Pano Logic if I had ever heard of selling heat. I assumed immediately he didn’t mean selling electricity or gas, but I have never heard of just selling “heat.” So I turned to Google, as I was sure this must be a common practice somewhere. Strangely, it wasn’t.
While most of the continental Europe is rather corrupt, there is not too much hope that political will is there to brake centralized heat supply monopolies and separate heat production and distribution (like it is attempted in electricity markets). Further distribution should be split into backbone city heat pipelines and distribution branches to multi apartment buildings. Then each apartment building may generate heat using integrated solar thermal facades or roofs plus heat pumps. A “smart grid” markets technology applied to heat would make wonders to heat prices.
