Geneva expands network for the use of lake water
The Geneva public utility company SIG is expanding the Genilac district heating network in the La Jonction district. Genilac heats and cools completely with water from Lake Geneva. 90 buildings are to be connected by 2025. This can save 10,600 tons of CO2.
The Geneva public utility company SIG is laying new district heating pipes in the La Jonction district. 90 buildings are to be connected to the Genilac district heating network by 2025, the SIG wrote in a press release . Of these, 30 buildings are used by the city and the canton of Geneva. Genilac fully supplies the connected buildings with heating and cooling from Lake Geneva. The extension in La Jonction saves 10,600 tons of CO2.
In total, Genilac is expected to deliver around 1150 gigawatt hours of cooling and 150 gigawatt hours of heat per year by 2030. By 2050, Genilac should help to reduce CO2 emissions in the canton by 70,000 tons. "Genilac is an important infrastructure with which CO2 emissions in the canton of Geneva are to be reduced and global warming is to be tackled", SIG General Director Christian Brunier is quoted in the press release.