GREENSPIRE – Green Strategies & Partnerships for Industrial Renewable Heat

Decarbonizing European heat demand through sustainable heat symbiosis

About the project

GREENSPIRE aims to tackle the barriers to implement renewable heat solutions in the European businesses or industries proposing the concept of sustainable heat symbiosis.

Solar thermal, high temperature heat pumps and thermal energy storages are the renewable heat technologies that are going to be explored with the recovery of waste heat streams. Interesting synergies are possible combining these technologies to supply several businesses or industries simultaneously.

Pilot sites

The project is organized around six pilots of sustainable heat symbiosis in Spain, Denmark, Belgium, and Greece, where the companies share assets of different renewable heat technologies by innovative collaborative business models.

Their exploitation will serve as means for upscaling similar developments elsewhere and foster the uptake of renewable heat in the industrial sector.

GREENSPIRE EU-project kickoff: Decarbonizing European heat demand through sustainable heat symbiosis

23/10/2025

Heat decarbonization of European industries is mandatory to reach the expected EU targets of CO2 reductions by 2030 and 2050. While power grid decarbonization has already reached promising results, the decarbonization of European heat…

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Funding

The innovation project GREENSPIRE is co-funded by the European Union and has received 1.748.168.00 EUR in support from the European Commission’s LIFE Clean Energy Transition Program.

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