E.ON has built and is running a district heating network since 2000 on request of the local authority of Ljungby to provide local apartment buildings in Lagan with heat. The population in Lagan is approximately 2000 persons of which 70 % uses the district heating network. Also the municipal buildings, school, nursing home as well as industries are connected. In total, the plant has approximately 220 customers, thereof 170-180 single family houses. Many of the single family house owners changed from their 15-20 year old oil boilers when the district heating plant in Lagan was built. This was both environmentally and economically sound. The production unit is a 2 MW biomass moving grate boiler for wood chips and briquettes and a 500 kW pellet boiler for back-up and low load. An oil boiler is also available as back-up. The wood chips are processed locally and E.ON’s 2 staff manages this and five similar systems remotely and with visits approximately once a day. The plant delivers approximately 11.2 GWh of heat per year.