The International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling is a research conference supervised by IEA DHC. Below you can find links to the publications from past symposia. They contain a wealth of research on district heating and cooling from all over the world.

The next event in this series is: The 20th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Linz, Austria on 5 to 8 September 2027.

Proceedings and publications of past symposia

• 2025 - 19th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Genk, Belgium
  • Selected symposium presentations in the IDEA “Learn” Repository
    • Download a step-by-step access guide to access the presentations (only for symposium registrants).
    • Batch-download all available symposium presentations after free registration and login
• 2023 - 18th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Bejing, China (Copy on IEA-DHC.ORG)
• 2021 - 17th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Nottingham, UK
• 2018 - 16th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Hamburg, Germany
  • Science Direct: Separate articles from the symposium
• 2016 - 15th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Seoul, Korea
• 2014 - 14th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Stockholm, Sweden
• 2012 - 13th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling in Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2010 and earlier - Symposium proceedings