Commercialisation
How to plan low temperature district heating systems?
Excess heat collaboration: Risk assessment of industrial excess heat collaborations -Empirical data from new and ongoing installations - Excess heat supply collaborations within the district heating sector: Drivers and barriers -
Projects
SO WHAT project
The SO WHAT main objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated software which supports industries and energy utilities in selecting, simulating and comparing alternative Waste Heat and Waste Cold (WH/C) exploitation technologies that could cost-effectively balance the local forecasted H&C demand also via renewable energy sources (RES) integration.
Publications
REWARDHeat D3.4 Business Models
Business models at the REWARDHeat demonstration sites.
REWARDHeat D3.5 Attracting institutional investors to low temperature DHC networks
This deliverable focuses on the development of financing solutions which are attractive to potential investors for the district energy sector.
Journal articles
Kristina Lygnerud, Tobias Popovic, Sebastian Schultze, Hanne Kortegaard Støchkel, District heating in the future - thoughts on the business model, Energy, Volume 278, 2023, 127714, ISSN 0360-5442, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.127714. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544223011088)
- Analysis of how business models need to change to meet changing business conditions in the future (time horizon 2050). The process of applying the value proposition canvas and the business model canvas for understanding the future business models to the case of district heating has been documented.