Neubrandenburg threatens hot water disaster: 13,000 affected!

Neubrandenburg threatens hot water disaster: 13,000 affected!

In the coming weeks, around 13,000 citizens of the Neubrandenburg Oststadt will have to prepare for unpleasant news: from July 14th to July 23, 2025, the supply of hot water will be temporarily interrupted. The reason for this is extensive works by the Neubrandenburg Stadtwerke, which invest millions in the renewal of district heating lines. In order to renew important nodes of the infrastructure, new, around 300 meters long pipes were laid and a "district heating crossing" was built under the Pasewalk railway track. Old lines are renovated and hundreds of cubic meters of water are drained in order to create space for the new insulated steel pipes with a diameter of over 50 centimeters that are completely laid underground.

The renovation work on the approximately 3.5 km long south-east strand, which dates from the 1970s, has been in progress since 2020. The municipal utilities have planned almost three million euros to optimize the district heating supply in the long term and to reduce the dependence on fossil fuels. Temporary restrictions and interruptions in hot water supply are uncomfortable, but the municipal utilities assure that there will be no permanent failure. Mobile heating stations are kept ready to secure the supply during the construction work. During this time the hot water comes from the gas and steam turbine heat and power plant (GUD-HKW).

long -term vision: the heat turn

The measures are part of a comprehensive transformation plan for district heating in Neubrandenburg, which is based on a mix of four different pillars to provide the city with heat. According to the potential analysis for municipal heat planning, geothermal energy and solar thermal energy are the best options for future heat supply. Several medium -sized gerical systems are planned, which are intended to cover almost half of the district heating requirement. Existing holes can be used for this. The approximately 55 ° C warm deep waters are prepared with heat pumps and fed into the central district heating network.

A significant part of the future heat supply is also covered by solar thermal systems that are intended to cover around 20 percent of the heat requirement. Neu.sw has already acquired areas near the heating power plant to introduce these technologies. In addition, the construction of a strawen pool is planned to store excess heat from summer for winter. In winter, support is then offered with a large heat pump to bring the stored warmth into the net.

A look at the numbers

The integration of renewable energies into the district heating networks is increasingly supported by political framework conditions such as the heat planning law and the building energy law. These measures promote the use of sustainable technologies such as solar thermal, geothermal energy and biomass for heat production. In order to increase the proportion of renewable energies to 50 percent by 2030, not only innovative technologies are required, but also long -term planning and coordination on the climatic conditions. By 2028, all German municipalities have to create local heat planning in order to make their heat supply to the future.