Greener Low-Carbon Meuse-Rhine area

Cross_HEAT

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  • Developing cross-border heat plans and regulations
    31 Mar 2026
  • Exploring opportunities for new heating networks
    31 Mar 2027
  • Testing tools and drawing up an investment plan
    30 Sep 2027
  • Collaborating and scaling up
    31 Mar 2028

CROSS_HEAT is a research project in the Netherlands, Germany, and 
Belgium. The goal is to heat homes and businesses in the region with a 
district heating network.

At the moment, we still use a lot of gas and oil to heat buildings. This is bad for the climate and makes us dependent on other countries.

Therefore, the project explores the potential use of waste heat from 
factories and geothermal energy from the ground. Aff ordability is an 
important focus, so the transition remains feasible for residents and 
businesses. The project also examines how to better align regulations in the three countries to make cross-border cooperation easier.

Residents and businesses can share their views on whether they want to 
connect to a district heating network and what matters most to them, such 
as costs, technology, and planning.

All results will be shared so that more regions can switch to clean and 
aff ordable heating through district heating in the future.

Contact

Team sustainability

Details

Project type
Medium
Implementation
Project start icon 01 Aug 2025
Project end icon 31 Jul 2028
Budgets
€ 2.616.294,34

Target audience

Local public authority Regional public authority National public authority Sectoral agency Infrastructure and (public) service provider SMEs Higher education and research organisations Interest groups including NGOs General Public

Budgets

EU-contribution
€ 1,308,147.16
Regional co-financing
€ 478,738.26
Contribution project partners
€ 829,408.92

Our partners

  • Municipality of Kerkrade

  • Municipality of Landgraaf

  • City administration Herzogenrath

  • City Region of Parkstad Limburg

  • City Region of Aachen

  • Institute for Transnational and Euregional Cross-border Cooperation and Mobility (ITEM)

  • Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems

  • Regional agency for energy and climate protection

  • Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO)

  • Cluster of Technology of Wallonia Energy, Environment and sustainable Development (TWEED)

Our co-financers

  • Ministry of Economic Affairs

  • Land NRW

  • Province of Limburg (NL)

  • Wallonia region

Contact

Team sustainability

Duurzaam@kerkrade.nl

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