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…
2023/10/05
Blog
Podcast recommendation: Utility 4.0 with Peter as guest
In the latest episode of the podcast "Utility 4.0 The future of energy" Peter got the chance to talk to Timo Eggers about district heating networks, the heatbeat Digital Twin and heat pumps.
2023/10/04
Newsletter
Waste Heat Utilization and Institutional Inertia in District Heating
This is the 36th issue of our heatbeat Research Newsletter, in which we give an update on recently published research on the topics of district heating, district cooling, and district energy systems.…
2023/09/06
Newsletter
Draft Law for Heat Planning and Decarbonization of Heat Networks
The subject of "municipal heat planning" is on the minds of many now, and we would also like to take up the topic in our current newsletter. To this end, we present what we consider to be the most im…
