2022/08/03
NewsletterDespite all good efforts in recent years, district heating in Germany is still very reliant on fossil fuels. The most recent statistics from 2020 show that natural gas accounts for around 44 % of the…
2022/07/06
NewsletterIn our July issue of the heatbeat Research Newsletter, we would like to present a research article that summarizes the hydraulic and thermal challenges of these networks and offers possible solutions…
2022/06/01
NewsletterIn this issue of our newsletter, we want to have a deeper look into this topic to better understand the potential as well as the barriers for applying machine learning techniques to district heating.…
2022/05/04
NewsletterThe share of renewable energies in German district heating networks is about 13 % and must be increased rapidly in the next years. In past newsletters, we have already presented some research on this…
2022/04/06
NewsletterLike last year, we chose our April newsletter to bring you a special issue with our District Heating Research Trends: an analysis of all scientific district heating research papers published last yea…
2022/03/02
NewsletterThe substitution of fossil fuels in the heat supply is an essential goal in the energy and heat transition in Germany. The integration of electric heat pumps plays a decisive role in this. This role …
2022/02/02
NewsletterThe drive for innovation in the district heating sector is not only at the heart of our work at heatbeat, but also a fundamental motivation for our newsletter, in which we aim to support the dissemin…
2022/01/04
NewsletterAt the beginning of the new year, we would like to make an exception and not present a scientific paper. In this issue of our newsletter, we instead focus on the draft "Bundesförderung für effiziente…
2021/12/01
NewsletterWhile it's clear that low network temperatures are the key to efficient 5th Generation District Heating and Cooling networks, it's less clear at which exact temperatures a given network will achieve …
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