During the last reporting period of the TEMPO project, the final development of the innovations was made, and they were successfully tested and integrated at the demo sites. The work progressed at large towards the main objectives of the project, the testing and evaluation of the innovations at the demo sites, delivering the final deliverables, organising the final event and planning the exploitation and replication actions to bring the TEMPO innovations to the market.
Despite the large number of tests (and the unknown outcome/direction of these test results) still to be performed after the last reporting period, the consortium succeeded in following the test plans as scheduled including a detailed follow-up of the testing campaigns. No further delays in the demonstrations were encountered.
Furthermore, the project also focussed on including feedback from the different stakeholders of the project e.g. Building managers, solution providers, district heating companies, etc. For the German demo site, the involvement of an end user and district heating operator was incorporated in the demo site video. For the Italian demo site, the building managers were informed about worst performing buildings via a leaflet describing the faults in their buildings and the corrective measures. Follow-up conversation with the building managers were setup to discuss the way these faults could be eliminated in the future. In this phase special attention was given to the way the building managers were approached to get a much as possible their contribution and involvement and without jeopardising the normal operation/business model of a district heating company.
Moreover, some of the key exploitable results in this project have already been applied in commercial and research contracts ensuring a substantiated entry in the market. This has led to new ways of cooperation and contributed substantially to the further development and deployment of district heating networks in Flanders, Germany, Italy, Austria and at the European scale.
