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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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,…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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.…

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