KWIKK - Implementation of Municipal Heating Plans in Small Municipalities

For a successful heating transition, it is crucial that municipal heating plans be implemented swiftly. However, small municipalities in particular face unique challenges in this regard: They often lack the personnel, financial resources, technical expertise, and appropriate local structures needed to translate plans into concrete actions. This is where the KWIKK collaborative project comes in. Together with partner municipalities and academic partners, the project develops and tests practical approaches to accelerate the implementation of municipal heating plans in small municipalities. The focus is on solutions for neighborhoods with decentralized heating and district heating areas. These include, among other things, collaboratively organized assessments of buildings’ suitability for heat pumps, approaches to the bundled procurement of heat pumps, and models for initiating and further developing district heating networks in municipalities without their own municipal utility. These measures are supported by participatory processes that involve property owners, local government, policymakers, and other local stakeholders at an early stage. The goal is to develop success factors, tools, and transferable approaches so that other small municipalities can also benefit from these experiences.