Instead of classic heating systems, the more than 500 homes in sugar park get their heat through a network of pipes that use residual heat from the production of Pepsico. “This heat would be lost differently, but is now efficiently used for the heating of a full neighborhood,” says Wim Geuens, plant manager of Pepsico in Veurne.
Veurne Suikerpark is the first heat network in Flanders that uses residual heat from chips ovens and shows how cities can embrace circular energy solutions. Unique in West Flanders is that this is the first project on a WVI company site where a production company delivers sufficient residual heat to heat a completely new neighborhood.