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District Heating: Before World War II, the first steps were taken 
toward providing district heating in Austria, in 1949 the first 
municipal long-distance heating system was activated in Klagenfurt, 
after 1955 the availability of district heating was rapidly and 
continuously increased. In the last few decades the rate of increase 
has been on average 8.3 % annually, so in 1998 approximately 
13 % of residential housing in Austria (approx. 433,000 homes) 
was linked to the district heating network.

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In Vienna, the percentage of homes heated by district heating comes to 
approximately 24 %, in Upper Austria15 %, in Salzburg and 
Styria 14 %, in Carinthia 9 %, in Tirol 5 %, in Lower 
Austria 4 %, in Burgenland and in Vorarlberg 1 %. Heating 
services are run by companies with various financial bases and having 
various legal forms; the largest percentage is run by municipal 
heating providers. The percentage of heat produced by combined heat 
and power plants amounts to 68 %.


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