Natural thermal sources
What are the different types of heat supply options?
Projects
Soil2Heat
We are a ZIM funded network on very shallow geothermal systems and district heating and cooling. The network is coordinated by the Geozentrum Nordbayern of the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. We implement innovative projects in the field of grid-connected heat supply via district heating and cooling by providing very shallow geothermal energy close to the ground surface up to a maximum depth of 5 m. Phase 1 of the network was completed on December 31, 2019. On April 1st, 2020 we started our international network (phase 2) together with Austrian Partners. From Germany 13 small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), 6 associated partners and 4 research institutions participate in the network. From Austria 7 partners are participating in the network.
http://soil2heat.net/English-Summary/
RES-DHC
RES-DHC stands for a wider introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the District Heating and Cooling (DHC) sector. The RES-DHC project addresses the manifold market uptake challenges related to the transformation of DHC systems to higher shares of RES.
Publications
D2.1 REWARDHeat planning schemes database
The deliverable serves as a database for literature review and best practice examples for ultra-low and neutral temperature district heating and cooling networks. Firstly, it provides detailed overview of existing knowledge and published research papers on the different related topics such as: renewable and urban waste heat sources, supply technologies, thermal networks, and end-user substations. Then, the overview of existing next-generation networks is presented, while focusing on their characteristics such as temperature regimes, thermal sources, network topology, etc. This information is organised as a publicly available database hosted on Zenodo platform, available on this link.