Advanced Controls for Buildings in District Heating Networks
We are presenting three new articles that show different ways of optimizing the operation of district heating networks and, in particular, the connected buildings.
2024/04/03
Newsletter
Solar Energy Utilization and Flexibility Potential of Heat Pumps
Whenever solar energy is considered as an option to be a heat source for district heating, a careful evaluation of whether to use solar thermal or PV in combination with a heat pump is necessary.
2024/03/06
Newsletter
Base Load Heat Generators and Predictive Control in District Heating Networks
The challenge of renewable energies is that they are often only available at varying times. In Denmark, for example, there are several heating networks that use solar thermal energy as a heat source,…
2024/02/07
Newsletter
Large-Scale Pit Thermal Energy Storage
Large-scale heat storages can be an important solution to enable the use of renewable heat sources with seasonally fluctuating availability like e.g. solar thermal energy.
2024/01/03
Newsletter
Perception of District Heating Networks in Europe and Optimization of Network Topologies
In order to achieve greater penetration of district heating networks in Germany (and Europe) in the coming years, a high level of acceptance among end customers is extremely important. As a first ste…
2023/12/06
Newsletter
Reducing Fossil Fuel Imports and Improving Heat Load Forecasts
In issue 38 of our heatbeat Research Newsletter we summarize two interesting research
publications from the field of district heating: A report that emphasis the important
role district heating can…
2023/11/01
Newsletter
Incentives for Improvement Measures on the Secondary Side in a Heating Network
This is the 37th issue of our heatbeat Research Newsletter, in which we provide updates on recently published research on district heating, district cooling, and district heating and cooling systems.…
2023/10/13
Blog
SummerSID featuring heatbeat
In June, we attended SummerSID in Stuttgart together with our project partners from NEW-Smart City. In the slot "Heat-Transformers 1000-piece-puzzle-guide for emission-free heat(-planning)" Tobias St…
2023/10/09
Blog
Municipal building stock in our heatbeat Digital Twin
New Feature: In addition to the buildings connected to a specific district heating network, our heatbeat Digital Twin now also has the option to display the entire municipal building stock in our web…
