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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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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…

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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…

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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.

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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.…

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