Link collection was developed to serve as a knowledge base and collection of useful tools that can help you at planning, implementing or monitoring the district heating system decarbonization process.
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Basics about DH |
https://danskfjernvarme.dk/media/dvrlhhco/theroleofdistrictheating_en.pdf |
Basics about district heating systems and how district heating creates value for society through integration with the overall energy system. |
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IEA DHC - TS5 Annex - Integration of Renewable Energy Sources into existing District Heating and Cooling Systems |
Deliverables outcoming from IEA DHC TS5 working group with the aim providing know how on RES DHC project development. ST A - Potential assessement methodologies and technological factsheets ST B - transformation guidelines and |
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Emb3rs |
The EMB3Rs platform has been designed to evaluate the reuse and trade of waste Heating and Cooling (HC) in a holistic perspective within an industrial process, energy system environment, or in District Heating and Cooling (DHC) systems under-regulated and liberalized market environment |
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Thermal planning tool |
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District Heating Toolkit |
https://energy.ec.europa.eu/topics/clean-energy-transition-initiatives/eu-coal-regions-transition/publications_en/district-heating-toolkit_en |
Guidelines developed by EC for decarbonisation of district heating systems |
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Guide to District Heating |
https://guidetodistrictheating.eu/guidance-for-cities-and-towns/how-to-get-started/ |
Guidelines developed by Interreg North-West Europe HeatNet NWE |
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Knowledge hub |
The most comprehensive database of resources linked to district heating and cooling, including academic reports & studies, research project outcomes, market analysis as well as other relevant content for the sector. |
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Factsheets from RES DHC project |
Country factsheets about implemented strateges and performed actions |
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Heat recovery |
Database ofwaste heat recoverysolutions |
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ReUseHeat |
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Upgrade DH |
The Upgrade DH project aims to improve the performance of district heating networks in Europe by supporting selected demonstration cases for upgrading, which can be replicated in Europe. |
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Infoportal für Großwärmepumpen LEA |
This platform provides reliable information and supports in selecting suitable large heat pumps. |
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The European Waste Heat Map |
https://aau.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=789b7faef30148bda20d320de9455919 |
This web map is a publicly available data repository with information on different waste heat sources from various projects. |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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The Pan-European Thermal Atlas (Peta 5.2) |
This web map is a publicly available data viewer with various information on heating and cooling sector parameters developed in the Heat Roadmap Europe project series (including the sEEnergies project). |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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Hotmaps |
Hotmaps is a software for studying the integration of RES in district heating systems by providing datasets as well as tools for estimating demand reduction scenarios and analysing dispatch and related performance indicators for various supply portfolios under different conditions. |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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Waste Heat Toolbox |
https://green-heat.net/waste-heat-utilisation/waste-heat-toolbox |
The Toolbox is aimed at supporting entrepreneurs and investors who would like to discover untapped potential of waste heat, understand technological aspects of its recovery into usable energy and get familiar with formal, administrative and financial issues of starting a new business based on waste heat. |
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CE - Heat Manual for the estimation of regional waste heat potential |
How waste heat potential in a region can be estimated in an easy manner. |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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GeoDH Map |
This system presents the geothermal resource assessment and highlights the areas where potential for geothermal district heating exists. Based on currently available information in terms geological data, already operational district heating systems, and heat demand, it shows the potential in the 14 project countries: Italy, |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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Heat Roadmap Europe - HRE |
Country Heat Maps And Atlases |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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ONLINE PACKAGE FOR VIRTUAL STUDY TOURS (ENTRAIN) |
https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/ENTRAIN/Study-tours.html |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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SOLAR DISTRICT HEATING – PLANT DATABASE |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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Datacenter map |
Map of datacenter (non complete) |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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Geothermal Map |
Geothermal potential map |
mapping RES/waste heat |
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DBFZ |
Interactive web-application for visualising biomass and bio-energy related data (potentials, flows, use) in Germany (and the EU) |
Mapping, calculation RES/biomass, bio- energy |
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THERMOS |
The tool enables the modelling of heating and cooling network systems and their optimal design. It includes a wide range of functions such as the modelling of pipe and civil engineering costs as well as demand models. |
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QM Toolbox |
https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/ENTRAIN.html |
Several documents on the quality management of heating network systems are available. These tools support the more efficient realisation and operation of heating networks with a variety of renewable energies. |
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Training Toolbox |
https://programme2014-20.interreg-central.eu/Content.Node/ENTRAIN.html#TRAINING_TOOLBOX |
Training materials and tools developed within the ENTRAIN project: the training sessions conducted by our Austrian expert partners ("Train the trainers"), the local training sessions in our five target regions, and a collection of study tours of renewable disctrict heating plants across Europe. |
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Heat Planning Toolbox |
The toolbox offers tools and advices for a full heat planning process, from the initial steps to the mapping, going then to the analysis and comparison of the scenario, to finally close with the planning and implementation of the most relevant measures. |
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AGFW Guidelines for DH transformation planning |
The document summarises helpful tips, tried-and-tested ideas and procedures that address the creation of transformation plans (based on German funding guidelines). It essentially addresses the topics of actual state analysis, determination of potential, target state, path to greenhouse gas neutrality and cost framework. |
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The sEEnergies Open Data Hub |
This is a platform for exploring and downloading GIS data produced in the sEEnergies-Project and presented in the Pan-European Thermal Atlas (Peta 5.2) web map. Data can be accessed via APIs and downloaded to GIS formats. |
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EnergyPRO |
energyPRO is the a comemrcial software for modelling, optimising, and simulating ditrict energy projects with cross sectional optimization including electricity, PtX, hybrid and thermal energy (such as process heat, hot water and cooling). |
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ScenoCalc District Heating |
This Excel-based calculation tool can be used to calculate the useful solar heat yield of solar thermal systems integrated into heating networks. A preset parameter selection can be used, but also own data can be implemented. |
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Simple Heat Pump calculation |
Excel calculation tool offers the economics calculation of electrical heat pumps in district heating networks. Its purpose is to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of a heat pump in an already existing grid with a solar thermal plant. |
planning |
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Bioraise |
GIS calculation tool for the estimation of biomass potential in a user defined area, according to the typology of forest species. |
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Interreg CE ENTRAIN - GUIDELINES FOR THE SIMPLIFIED EVALUATION OF THE POTENTIAL FOR |
The guidelines provide an overview of the necessary information that is important for a development of DH projects and their financing. By presenting the most important questions for each key topic, the tool lays the foundation for a potential analysis. |
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hot-SPOT model |
GIS based model aimed at assessing the national techno- economic potential of district heating (DH) based on renewables and excess heat sources. The model uses an optimization approach to match heat demand and heat sources at large scale level, while keeping a high degree of spatial detail. |
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REWARDHeat project, Results & Deliverables |
The overall objective of REWARDHeat is to demonstrate a new generation of low-temperature district heating and cooling networks that will be able to recover renewable and waste heat, available at low temperature. Among public available material there are a tool box and several guidelines |
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Danish energy agency catalogue |
https://ens.dk/en/analyses-and-statistics/technology-catalogues |
Technology Data catalogues include technology data for technologies for centralized and decentralized production of electricity and district heat - Technology Catalogues are separated into eight different categories; Catalogue about electricity generation and DH available in version 16 |
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City Energy Analyst |
The City Energy Analyst (CEA) is an urban building energy modeling (UBEM) platform and one of the first open- source initiatives of computation tools for the design of low-carbon and highly efficient cities. |
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Sowhat tool |
The tool offers the user the ability to understand the potential for waste heat/cooling recovery and use at Manufacturing and Community levels. |
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PILEDHC |
PILEDHC is a dynamic simulation program for the evaluation of low-temperature district heating systems (also called 5th generation). It is based on PILESIM2, to which some components have been added, such as hybrid thermal and photovoltaic (PVT) modules, and a piping network whose length is user-defined, that is |
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Power-To-X and District Heating |
https://danskfjernvarme.dk/media/pt4lfhpe/power-to-x-and-district-heating_english-version_web.pdf |
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PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT OF DHC SYSTEMS (WEDISTRICT) |
https://www.wedistrict.eu/new-publication-performance-assessment-of-district-energy-systems-with-common-elements-for-heating-and-cooling |
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Solar District Heating in cities |
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Guideline for a spatial multicriteria analysis |
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Guide for strategy development |
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Solar district heating guidelines |
https://www.solar-district-heating.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/SDH-Guidelines_update_09.2017.pdf |
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Cool DH |
Calculator on savings for new high-efficient pipe types for internal distribution in buildings |
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