Project description
New district heating and cooling solutions using low-grade heat
Cities and towns have developed along rivers, lakes and seashores, which provide access to environmental heat. In addition to this, waste heat sources are widely spread within the built environement. With this in mind, the main aim of the EU-funded REWARDHeat project is to develop a new generation of low-temperature district heating and cooling networks that will recover low-grade renewable and waste heat available at low temperatures. Its ultimate vision is to enable new ways to provide heating and cooling to buildings, making thermal energy a service, not a commodity.
Objective
It is in urban areas that the demand for heating and cooling demand assumes highest density. At the same time a huge amount of low-grade waste heat is diffused within the urban texture, the largest amount being rejected by air-conditioners, cooling systems in industrial processes and tertiary buildings (i.e. dry coolers and wet cooling towers), datacentres’ chillers and supermarkets’ refrigeration systems.
Moreover, for historic reasons, cities have born along rivers, lakes and seashores. All these sources make low-temperature renewable energy available, which utilisation is highly replicable because it is accessible right where it is needed.
Having this in mind, the overall objective of REWARDHeat is to demonstrate a new generation of low-temperature district heating and cooling networks, which will be able to recover low-grade renewable and waste heat available at low temperature. Focusing on the exploitation of the energy sources available within the urban context allows to maximize the replicability potential of the decentralized solutions developed in the project.
REWARDHeat will promote punctual metering, thermal storage management, network smart control as means to enable and optimise the exploitation of renewable and waste heat in DHC networks.
At the same time, this approach permits a change of paradigm with respect to the business models devised: thermal energy will not be seen as a commodity anymore, rather it will be sold as a service to the customers.
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39100 Bolzano
Italy
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Participants (34)
100 31 Stockholm
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16129 Genova
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47151 Boecillo
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1200 Bruxelles / Brussel
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10000 Zagreb
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6430 Nordborg
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05825 Grodzisk Mazowiecki
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050883 Bucuresti
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5145 NS Waalwijk
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9220 Aalborg
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72124 Pliezhausen
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75008 Paris
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75009 Paris
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25124 Brescia
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20539 Hamburg
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59350 Saint-Andre-Lez-Lille
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2620 Albertslund
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194 92 Upplands Vasby
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44415 Topusko
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70176 Stuttgart
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31134 Hildesheim
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4020 Linz
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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70174 Stuttgart
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25449 Helsinborg
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90402 Nurnberg
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33005 Oviedo
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07009 Palma De Mallorca
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6411 NZ Heerlen
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217 42 Malmo
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70 653 Szczecin
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6411 NZ Heerlen
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13120 Gardanne
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205 09 MALMO
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