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  1. Sustainable Heating & Cooling in Practice: Insights from Southern Sweden on efficient and effective District Heating Asset Management
  2. Programme

Programme

Please note that the programme below presents an indicative overview of the programme and time slots. 


DAY 1

7th October 2025

09.00 - 11.00 Arrival to Helsingborg 

Open House, mingle and company technology display

Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen, Bröderna Pihls gränd 2, Helsingborg

11.00 Welcome and Introduction.
SHC by Sweden and Study Tour program
  • Paul Westin, Swedish Energy Agency
  • Håkan Knutsson, SweHeat and Cooling


Example of projects in Öresundskraft; Conversion/Refurbishment old oil/coal-fired CHP plant to biomass, reinvestment large heat pump, heat driven District Cooling, and CCS from Waste-to-Energy plant.

  • Johan Lundberg, Large Project Manager, Öresundskraft


Overview of heat supply portfolio and how it is optimized, sector coupling electric power market, regional DH network (EVITA).

  • Fredrik Hörberg, Manager Production Planning, Öresundskraft

12.00 - 13.00 Networking Lunch @ Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen at rooftop

13.00 - 15:00 Site visit at Öresundskraft, Västhamnsverket, Atlantgatan (10 min walk).

  • Conversion of old CHP plant, from coal to oil to biomass. Refurbished to island operation and regional electricity capacity services.
  • District Cooling from surplus heat (absorption) and sea water free cooling.
  • Waste heat recovery from treated sewage water. 15 MW heat pump, installed in the 1980s, reinvestment plan.
  • Large scale reuse of industrial surplus heat from Kemira chemical plant, supplying 1/3 of city DH need.
  • CCS-project, Carbon-Capture-Storage from existing Waste CHP plant.
  • DH expansion in suburbs – from building gas boilers to DH.
  • Interconnection and optimisation of DH in five municipalities. 
  • Anders Berman-Svensson, Öresundskraft.

Return to hotel (10 min walk)


15.00 - 15.20 Coffee Break @ Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen

15.20 - 17.00 Workshop with impulses from Tech experts

Swedish development of DHC towards fossil fuel free supply

  • Paul Westin, Sr. Business Developer, Swedish Energy Agency 

Trends & observations in Sweden around DH temperature levels, energy storages, and waste heat recovery

  • Leif Breitholtz, FVB

District Cooling from waste heat and sea water.

  • Joakim Nilsson, Devcco

Optimization and sector coupling (electricity) of small and large interconnected DH systems.

  • Herman Nedar, Energy-Opticon

Using AI algorithms for energy saving, demand side flexibility and anomaly detection in substation.

  • Charlotta Feith, Noda Intelligent Systems

Capture more heat from data centers and other sources.

  • Ebba Fjelkner, Alfa Laval

Heat exchangers – critical components in DHC.

  • Erik Friberg, SWEP

Example of large heat pump installations.

  • Termoekonomi

18.30 Welcome drink

19.30 Networking dinner at Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen


DAY 2

8th October 2025

09.00 - 10.30 Morning session - Workshop @ Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen
Workshop on asset management, preservation and maintenance of district heating networks. 

On the way to utilizing predictive maintenance strategies for heating networks (DH)

  • Stefan Hay, AGFW German DH Association

Large scale implementation of preventive and predictive maintenance in old DH networks

  • Magnus Ohlsson, Öresundskraft

09.30 - 09.45 Coffee Break

09.45 - 11.00 Site visit underground (10 min walk)

Underground DH concrete chamber with condition monitoring. See the backbone DH system built in the early 1960s and how it is monitored, refurbished, preserved, aiming at 100-year service life-time.

  • Magnus Ohlsson, Öresundskraft

Return to hotel (10 min walk)


11.00 - 12.15 Workshop with tech impulses

Predictive maintenance, finding corrosion, prevent pipe bursts and max lifetime of pipes

  • Max Gerger, Arne Jensen AB

Surveillance to detect and locate moisture in different type of pipe networks

  • Björn Johansson, Wioniq

Relining of DH steel pipes

  • Andreas Martsman, CarboSeal

On-line repair of pre-insulated pipes

  • Johan Sjöström, Mittel AB

Challenges to sell DH, DC, and to replace gas

  • Tobias Jansson, Öresundskraft

PipeOpsy – analysis and prediction of PUR foam degradation

  • RISE

12.15 - 13.15 Networking lunch at Hotel Scandic Oceanhamnen.

13.15 - 13.30 Conclusions and summing up.

13.30 - 14.15 Bonus lecture for those ones available to stay.

The merger of DH and heat pumps (front-end, in customer buildings), adding new value such as cooling. Joint discussion.

  • Dr Per Rosén, Qvantum