Current projects
Current projects
| Project | Period | Topic | Funding |
|---|---|---|---|
| ConnectHeat | 2022/10 – 2025/09 | ConnectHeat is the first European initiative to develop heating and cooling communities in Europe, putting public authorities and citizens at the heart of the energy transition. | Public funds |
| Feasibility Study for the Wärmenetze 4.0 Project in Hechingen (Germany) | since 2019/02 | This study investigates how a heat supply can be achieved with a high fraction of renewable energies for a development area in Hechingen with the aim to achieve 100 % renewable energy sources. | Public funds |
SWD.SOL2 | 2019/07 - 2022/06 | Testing the decentralized solar heat feed-in into a municipal district heating network with an experimental station on a real scale | Public funds |
ENTRAIN | 2019/04 - 2022/03 | Improving the capacities of public authorities to develop and implement local strategies and action plans for enhancing the use of endogenous renewable energy sources in small district heating networks | Public funds |
| Solar Thermal Energy for the District Heating System in Ettenheim | 2019/03 - 2019/10 | A solar thermal plant is included in the existing district heating network in Ettenheim to increase the ratio of renewable energy. | Private financing |
| Carbon Neutrality of All German Mercedes-Benz Factories in 2022 | 2019/01 - 2019/08 | First studies for a sustainable heat supply of the factory in Bad Cannstatt by solar thermal energy | Private financing |
| Validate Frost | 2018/09 - 2020/08 | Evaluation of the "minus 3 °C limit" which is determined as a minimal inlet temperature for the operation of borehole heat exchanger systems. | Public funds |
SWTü4.0 | 2018/09 - 2019/12 | Transformation of Tübingen's distrct heating system "Südstadt" into a "District Heating 4.0 System" | Public funds |
| Seasonal Heat Storage for Phase Out of Coal-Fired Power in Berlin | 2018/09 - 2019/05 | Preconceptions for possible seasonal heat storages in order to realize the phase out of coal-fired power generation in Berlin by 2030. | n/a |
| Heat Storage to Optimize Own Generated Electricity at KIT | 2018/08 - 2019/05 | Dimensioning of a possible heat storage to optimize own generated electricity at KIT Campus Nord | n/a |
Upgrade DH | 2018/05 - 2021/04 | Improving the performance of inefficient district heating networks | Public funds |
| LowEx Herten | 2018/04 - 2019/09 | Development of an economically, ecologically and socially optimal heat supply concept for the conversion area of the former Westerholt colliery in Gelsenkirchen-Herten | Private financing |
gigaTES | 2018/01 - 2020/12 | The Austrian lead project gigaTES aims at developing giga-scale storage concepts for urban districts with integrating large shares of renewables focusing on Austrian implementations. | Public funds |
Renewable District Heating 2020 | 2017/10 - 2022/09 | Until the year 2022 the share of CO2-neutral heat in the district heating network of the city Hennigsdorf will be increased from 50 to 80 %. To reach this target, the district heating network is changed to a multifunctional heat hub. | Public funds |
TEMPO | 2017/10 - 2021/09 | Development of technical innovations that enables district heating networks to operate at lower temperatures. Therefore, heat losses can be reduced and a higher share of renewable and excess heat is possible. | Public funds |
IEA-DHC Annex XII Project 03 | 2017/10 - 2020/03 | The project contributes towards the development of data, information and analysis tools to encourage the use of cost-effective large scale aquifer and pit thermal energy storage in smart district heating and cooling systems. | Private financing |
| Integrated Energy Concept Königsbronn (Germany) | 2017/10 - 2018/12 | Concept of a renewable heat supply for the district "at the foundry" in the German municipality of Königsbronn within the framework of an integrated energy concept | Public funds |
| Solar Thermal Energy for the City of Freiberg a. N. (Germany) | 2017/09 - 2018/08 | Concept and simulation of solar thermal energy production including a thermal energy storage for the new Oscar-Paret-School and the surrounding quarter in the German city Freiberg am Neckar | Public funds |
Solnet 4.0 | 2017/08 - 2019/12 | Solnet 4.0 is a cooperation of industry and research aiming at the market development of solar district heating in Germany. | Public funds Private financing |
SolnetBW II | 2017/04 - 2019/03 | The Solnet.BW II project aims at promoting and increasing the use of solar district heating in Baden-Württemberg. | Public funds |
| DELFIN | 2016/06 - 2019/06 | Predicting the effects of decentralized integration of heat from renewable energy sources and other heat generators into district heating networks | Public funds |
QEWS II | 2016/04 - 2020/03 | Research to improve the quality assurance of borehole heat exchangers (BHE). Examination of divers influences on the grouting quality of BHE by experiments and evaluation of the results concerning technical, economic and ecological aspects. | Public funds |
EWS-tech II | 2016/04 - 2019/12 | Within the joint research project EWS-tech II examinations on the grouting quality of borehole heat exchangers (BHE) are carried out. These examinations result in a recommendation catalog for grouting materials that can e.g. be used by legislators or grouting material manufacturers. | Public funds |
| Solar Thermal Greenhouse Heating in South Korea | 2016/04 - 2017/07 | Feasibility study for a solar thermal greenhouse heating with seasonal thermal energy storage | Private financing |
SDHp2m | 2016/01 - 2018/12 | Advanced policies and market support measures for mobilizing solar district heating investments in European target regions and countries. | Public funds |
| Study for the Heat Transition in the Region Eifel and Trier (Germany) | 2015/11 - 2016/04 | Possibilities and strategies for a regional heat transition in the rural area Eifel and Trier | Public funds |
Energy Efficiency in Care Homes for the Elderly | 2015/06 - 2018/10 | Support of energy efficiency in care homes by non- and low-investment measures | Public funds |
| SWD.SOL | 2015/05 - 2018/04 | Decentralised heat supply from renewable energies into the CHP based district heating network of the Stadtwerke Düsseldorf AG | Public funds |
| Solarbioenergy Village Mengsberg (Germany) | 2015/04 - 2016/08 | TRNSYS simulations for a solarthermal plant of a new district heating system in the German village Mengsberg | Private financing |
| SCFW | 2014/12 - 2016/11 | SCFW develops an Excel tool based on ScenoCalc for calculation of the solar net gain of solar thermal systems that are integrated into district heating networks. | Public funds |
DK Monitoring | 2014/06 - 2018/12 | Monitoring and evaluation of four danish pilot plants for solar district heating with seasonal thermal energy storage | Public funds |
SmartReFlex | 2014/03 - 2017/03 | The SmartReFlex project aims at increasing the diffusion of smart and flexible district heating and cooling (DHC) systems, basing on high shares of renewable energy sources (RES), in European cities. | Public funds |
PITAGORAS | 2013/11 - 2017/10 | PITAGORAS develops concepts for the utilization of industrial waste heat and solar heat for the heat and power supply of the industrial system itself and the additional feed-in of heat in district heating networks. | Public funds |
| EnWiSol | 2013/06 - 2017/05 | Participation in the research project EnWiSol of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in the work package for scientific-technical accompaniment of the pilot plant Gutleutmatten. | Public funds |