Czech Republic is a country in the middle of Europe with 10.7 million inhabitants. The major local source of energy is coal, which is used both for electricity (42%) and for heat generation (58%). Gas has also been used in the energy system, for heating as well as for electricity generation and historically 100% has been imported from Russia. Moreover, 40% of the electricity is produced by nuclear power, with plans for extension, and 13% of the electricity is produced by renewables.
The country has ambitions to decarbonize the energy system and in parallel improve the energy security by improving energy efficiency, introducing energy taxations and by improving energy security through import LNG, produce biogas and installations of heat pumps.
A large share of the buildings in Czech Republic are heated by district heating where coal is the main fuel. The government are developing long-term plans for the decarbonization of district heating systems, for instance by promoting large-scale heat pumps.
The market for distributed heat pumps has grown during the last year and during 2021 22 000 heat pumps were installed.
Czech Republic’s goals for the membership in HPT TCP is to learn, to be able to educate and to contribute to the collaboration. To start with their primary interest is the collaboration project related to heat pumps in district heating and cooling systems – Annex 57 Flexibility by implementation of heat pumps in multi-vector energy systems and thermal networks.
The Government of the Czech Republic has designated SEVEn, the Energy Efficiency Centre, z.ú. to be the Contracting Party in the HPT TCP, for and on behalf of the Government of the Czech Republic The Executive Committees’ representative (delegate) and alternate representative (alternate delegate) will be Tomáš Caha, Senior Technical Expert at Exergie.CZ and Tomáš Voříšek, Technical Director at SEVEn. They both participated, as official delegates for the first time, in the HPT TCP Executive Committee meeting which took place in London, UK on November 9-10.
Contact info to the Czech delegates:
Tomáš Caha: tc@exergie.cz
Tomáš Voříšek: tomas.vorisek@svn.cz
