This is by far the largest heating network in France, and in fact the second in Europe after Berlin. Powering one million inhabitants, or a quarter of the housing stock in Paris, the Paris Urban Heating Company (CPCU) knows its operators this Tuesday, November 25 from 2027. And it is the alliance between Dalkia – a subsidiary of EDF –, RATP and Eiffage that wins the market currently held by Engie, announced the town hall during a press conference at the town hall. The value of the contract is pharaonic: 15 billion euros over twenty-five years. An orientation that must be confirmed at the next city council, which will take place from 16 to 19 December. This formalization will then represent “historic step in the energy transition” the city of Paris, said Patrick Bloche, first deputy mayor of Paris.
52,000 buildings, more than half of them residential, in France are connected to this type of network, a kind of central heating on the scale of an urban area or city that allows the distribution of the generated heat centrally across several buildings. Around Paris, three incinerators were mobilized: Ivry-sur-Seine, Issy-les-Moulineaux and Saint-Ouen. Heat generated from burning waste collected by Ivry, for example, is diverted to the CPCU plant in Vitry-sur-Seine, which
