title: The General and the Specifics: Heating and Cooling Strategies in Smart Energy Systems
abstract: Copenhagen between 2016 and 2022. Around the time that I started working at the AAU, in 2015, there was a moment of increased action on district heating and cooling, with the EU Strategy for Heating and Cooling looking towards more integrated heating and cooling at European level, and the UN Environment District Energy in Cities Initiative gaining speed. This was of course also driven by the annexation of the Crimea in 2014. The main narrative was still that heating and cooling was local and com