Overview

• Dresden’s draft Wärmeplan targets district-heat connections for 30,000 additional apartments and 4,000 buildings by 2035, with €1.75 billion earmarked for network expansion.
• The plan estimates about €2.26 billion for building-level heating upgrades and keeps district heating as the main supply while steering sparsely populated areas toward decentralized solutions such as heat pumps.
• Replacement sources listed for Dresden include large heat pumps using environmental, river and sewage heat, industrial and data‑center waste heat, geothermal, electrode boilers, air‑source heat pumps and green hydrogen, all dependent on renewable electricity and storage.
• The city will brief residents through a Wärmewendedialog on September 29 with a livestream, and it plans to seek city council approval of the heat plan in 2026.
• Halle presented a data‑driven draft developed with the city’s utilities and in consultation with the national heat-transition competence center, inviting residents to participate as Germany phases out oil and gas heating after 2045 under deadlines of June 2026 for large cities and June 2028 for smaller municipalities.