A bitter dispute over district heating ends up in the Supreme Court

The geothermal case from Viborg, which ended with a million-dollar bill for consumers, is going to the Supreme Court.

It has been 14 years since the failed geothermal project in Kvols was stopped. (Photo: © Morten Dueholm, Jysk Fynske Medier/Ritzau Scanpix)

By Lars Fjord Nielsen ([email protected]) 34 minutes ago

The compensation association, which lost the compensation case in the so-called 'geothermal case' at the Western High Court last year, has now been granted free legal aid to have the case heard in the Supreme Court.

Ole Jespersen from Viborg, who is chairman of the Compensation Association for District Heating Cases, is pleased that he can now have the case tried before the country's highest judges.

"We feel that a very, very serious injustice has been committed against the district heating consumers in Viborg. The project was launched with the consumers' acceptance that they would use 11-13 million kroner. Then 165 million was spent."

A total bill that ended up with the local district heating customers.

Originally, more than 1,900 district heating consumers and two housing associations filed a lawsuit against the board of Viborg District Heating after they passed on the bill for a failed drilling for hot water deep underground in the village of Kvols to the district heating consumers.

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It's about justice

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But now, 14 years later, several of the former board members of Viborg District Heating have either died or are too old to fight in court, and the housing associations have withdrawn from the compensation association.

Nevertheless, Ole Jespersen feels that the case is far from outdated.

"Well, it's the sense of justice. We feel that we have been dragged to the slaughterhouse and simply been financially butchered for that project out there, which we never approved of."

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