Kurz-ENP as a Preliminary Analysis for Intermunicipal Heat Planning
Recently, the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development, and Energy has started funding a new project format designed to help municipalities form meaningful alliances for muni…
2024/06/19
Blog
Strategic Partnership between heatbeat and ENERPIPE
Heatbeat engineering GmbH and ENERPIPE are pleased to announce their new strategic partnership. This collaboration aims to advance heatbeat’s innovative solutions in the planning and operational opti…
2024/06/05
Newsletter
Influence of substation behavior on network efficiency
In issue 44 of our heatbeat Research Newsletter we present 2 examples for how considering the substation behavior can help to improve the network operation as a whole.
2024/05/01
Newsletter
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…
