€20 million in EU funding for district heating in the Šaleška dolina valley

As part of the EU-funded project, Urban Municipality of Velenje will make investment in the existing infrastructure to optimise its performance and reduce losses, while enabling a gradual shift to energy-efficient decentralisation of production of heat and/or cold in line with the principles of energy efficiency, including the deployment of advanced digital solutions for the distribution system. The project will include the overhaul of the critical sections of the hot water and warm water networks in the length of 7,896 meters and modernisation of nine heating stations with the 2.431-metre long network as well as construction of 65 new internal heating substations. The retrofitting of the district heating system is one of the key projects that will advance a just energy transition, i.e. fair, equitable, and inclusive decarbonisation in the region.  

The project will be implemented under priority Restructuring of coal regions of Slovenia’s EU Cohesion Policy Programme 2021-2027. It will pursue specific objective Just Transition Fund. 

The €30,268,131.13 project will receive nearly €20 million, more specifically €19,910,463.67, from the Just Transition Fund.