Project MUSE-DHC

The European project MUSE-DHC is part of the LIFE-ClearEnergy Transition Programme of the European Commission, whose objective is to facilitate the transition towards an energy-efficient economy based on renewable energies, climate-neutral and resilient. MUSE-DHC is the acronym for Community-led actions for efficient DHC. That is to say: Actions led by the (energy) communities for efficient heating and cooling networks, in districts.

This project, executed between June 2025 and May 2028, is promoted by a European consortium formed by 10 partners from 5 regions (FR, IE, IT, NL and Catalonia) specialists in investment plans, cooperative processes and multilevel policies, coordinated by Ambiente Italia. In our context, OECOOP cooperates with SUNO Enginyeria de Serveis Energètics.

The objective of MUSE DHC is to promote the development of 9 new heating and cooling networks exploiting residual heat (or renewable energies) from local chains. The idea behind the fund is to maximise the socio-economic and environmental benefits of local environments from collective approaches led by those of energy cooperatives. This is achieved by developing investment plans related to existing buildings in various sectors, with a wide range of supply solutions (renewable energies and residual heat) and enabling technologies (storage, or heat pumps). In Osona, this project is being deployed in the municipalities of Masies de Voltregà and Torelló, with the involvement of their respective cooperatives: Voltregà Energia and Pesca Energia. In both cases, we structure and energise local participation spaces, which we call laboratories – Labs-Vius, in which the town councils, companies, cultural entities, associations and citizens of the neighbourhoods benefiting from the new heating networks are involved.