Smart Energy Systems
What is the role of district heating in the future energy system?
Projects
sEEnergies project
sEEnergies is a European Horizon2020 project with the overall aim to answer those questions. It quantifies and operationalizes the potential for energy efficiency in buildings, transport, and industry, considering all aspects of the Energy Efficiency First Principle.
- seenergies.eu
Sim4Blocks
The four year EC-funded project, Sim4Blocks, focused on the development of innovative demand response (DR) services for residential and commercial applications. The project combined decentralised energy management technology at the blocks-of-buildings scale to enable DR.
Reinvest project
The ‘Renewable Energy Investment Strategies’ project, or RE-INVEST, aims to design robust, cost-effective investment strategies that will facilitate an efficient transformation towards a 100% renewable energy system in Europe.
IEA Project TS4
Annex TS4 is a project aiming at promoting the opportunities of the integration of digital processes into DHC schemes and to clarify the role of digitalisation for different parts within the operation and maintenance of the district heating and cooling system.
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.