From the 2024/25 heating period on, about 20,000 households in Hamburg are to be supplied with CO2-free industrial heat generated by a secondary process of copper production at Aurubis.
With its 10.7 million m³ total pondage, the Pirk Dam located in the Free State of Saxony serves for the supply of service water, low-flow augmentation and power generation in the county of Vogtland.