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The city of Aachen will soon complete the mandatory municipal heat planning. If a heating network is suitable for a neighborhood but a district heating connection is not feasible in the medium term, a local heating network could be a solution. To support this, the city of Aachen, in cooperation with heatbeat, offers a new advisory service for its residents.

In Berlin, the Siemensstadt Square project is being built as a smart campus of the future, which combines digitalization with energy efficiency and sustainability. Using our heatbeat Digital Twin, we simulate the heating and cooling supply of the district.

The research project 'FunkSTA: Operational optimization and expansion of renewable-fed district heating network for municipal utilities based on wireless communication technologies' is funded by the 7th Energy Research Program of the German Federal Government. Through the radio-based measurement data connection to our Digital Twin, we can calibrate and improve our simulation models.

An innovative, district heating and cooling network is being built in the Shamrockpark in Herne, funded by the BMWK. Our role is to map the buildings, the thermal network and the generators for heating and cooling in our heatbeat Digital Twin.

The Brainergy Park Jülich GmbH is developing a modern and innovative commercial district in which renewable energies and the coupling of energy sectors play a major role. For a coordinated energy system, heatbeat supports the planning by modelling and simulating the buildings and the heating networks.

The project TransUrban.NRW is a winner of the ideas competition 'Reallabore der Energiewende' of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK). With our simulations we support the implementation of innovative 5th generation district heating networks at 4 locations in North Rhine-Westphalia.

In our research project BestWärmKI, the goal is to improve the operation of heating networks through the innovative use of artificial intelligence. To achieve this, we are collaborating with our project partners SWW Wunsiedel GmbH, othermo GmbH, and the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS (Fraunhofer IIS).