the thermal power of the thermal energy exchange;

100. Calls for greater attention to be paid to the heat and cooling sectors; calls, in this respects, on the EU to consider the full integration of the heating and cooling sector into the transformation of the energy system; notes that this sector today represents ca. 45 % of the final energy consumption in Europe, and that a better understanding of the important role of heating and cooling is needed; calls on the Commission, therefore, to gather the required data reflecting the energy sources for and uses of heating and cooling, as well as the distribution of heat to different groups of final consumers (e.g. residential, industry, tertiary); encourages the development of combined heat and power plants that use renewable or recovered an ...[+++]d waste heat, and supports further research on cooling and heating systems with a view to executing the EU’s ambitious policy; calls on public authorities to update demand forecasts on the 2050 horizon and to produce impact assessments of regional underground conditions in order to optimise resource allocation; calls, furthermore, on the Commission and the Member States to allocate increased funding to local energy infrastructures such as district heating and cooling – including through RD and innovative financial instruments – that bring about efficient, low- and no-carbon solutions that will substitute the import and European-wide exchange/transport of energy; notes that readily available renewable energy solutions (geothermal, biomass including biodegradable waste, solar thermal and hydro/aerothermal), in combination with energy efficiency measures, have the potential to decarbonise the heat demand by 2050 in a more cost-effective way, while addressing the problem of energy poverty;

In fact, we're lucky that those markets exist because, one, we can do something with our surplus power; two, it results in a more stable electricity system in North America because we have those exchanges on both sides of the border; and three, every time there's surplus of hydro power that is exported to the United States, it displaces thermal generation in the U.S. We are living in a shared airshed, so there are significant, very positive results because of the electricity trade between Canada and the U.S. Thank you, Mr. Nicholls.

There's a local recycling plant that has waste heat that will be incorporated, a geo-exchange or geothermal application, possibilities to add a biomass boiler and natural gas into the grid, and potentially even solar-thermal, those types of things, on each building so a mix and match of where things go.

thermal insulation: any component part of the building serving to reduce heat exchange with the outside, including construction materials whose thermal properties are such that they inherently act as insulators.

(11a) thermal insulation: any component part of the building serving to reduce heat exchange with the outside, including construction materials whose thermal properties are such that they inherently act as insulators.