Balász Némethi graduated at the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Budapest in 1997 as building services engineer and started working for the Budapest District Heating Co. Ltd. in 2000 as technical development engineer. In the first few years he dealt with district heating substation issues, delivering operational measurements. Later he was tasked with implementing regulation of the energy performance of buildings, especially the method of defining the primary energy factor of the district heating. Mr, Némethi is the leader of the Technical Committee of the Association of Hungarian District Heating Enterprises. As such he deals with the challenge of district heating and cooling efficiency and increasing the share of renewable and waste heat sources. He is also a member of the management of the District Heating Department of the Hungarian Scientific Society of Energy Economics, involved with organizing the annual DH-conference.