Step 4: Renewable energy potential

The renewable energy potential assessment involves evaluating the spatial and temporal availability of different renewable resources and identifying opportunities for recovering waste heat from industrial or commercial sources.

  • Spatial / temporal availability and potential
  • Opportunities waste heat recovery


Useful links

Tool Link Description Category (main focus) Picture
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. planning Waste Heat
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 The European Waste Heat Map
The Pan-European Thermal Atlas (Peta 5.2) https://www.seenergies.eu/peta5/ 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 Pan European Thermal Atlas
Emb3rs https://www.emb3rs.eu/platform/ 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 best practice Emb3rs