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Feature Update Live Q1 2026

Every three months, our webinar series provides a compact overview of the latest features in heatbeat Digital Twin – practical and interactive! Find out more here.

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Urban building energy models and their impact on district heating planning

As usual, in the 63rd edition of our heatbeat Research Newsletter, we present a recent article by Ceruti et al. on assessing the performance of urban energy models and their influence on the planning…

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Digital Twin Feature Update: December

Find out more about our latest developments in downloading map views and improvements in planning expansion variants in our feature update for version 2025.12.

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Supply Temperature Control Optimization via Dynamic Network Simulation

As usual, in the 62nd edition of our heatbeat Research Newsletter, we present a recent article by Boghetti et al. on supply temperature optimizations in heating networks. We would also like to use th…

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Digital Twin Feature Update: November

Find out more about our latest developments in the simulation of generation strategies and the dimensioning and simulation of multiple feed-ins in our feature update for version 2025.11.

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heatbeat among the TOP TEN for energy efficiency – Award for our Digital Twin

Heatbeat is one of the TOP TEN in the field of energy efficiency! We received an award at the annual conference of the Initiative Energieeffizienz- und Klimaschutz-Netzwerke.

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Off-site meeting 2025, part 2: A look back at the team event in Nuremberg

From 29 to 31 October 2025, the heatbeat team gathered for a special off-site meeting in Nuremberg. Learn more about our last meeting here!

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Solar-Based District Heating Architectures & AI Surrogate Models for Fast Network Simulations

In the 61st issue, we present two recent studies: The first explores the techno-economic optimization of solar-assisted district heating systems, while the second introduces a novel surrogate model b…

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Digital Twin Feature Update: October

Find out more about our latest developments for the editing mode, project creation and weather data integration in our feature update for version 2025.10.

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