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Modernizing District Heating Networks: A Strategic Decision-Support Framework for Sustainable Retrofitting
A strategic decision-support framework was developed by literature review and expert interviews.
A Review of Seasonal Energy Storage for Net-Zero Industrial Heat
Thermal and Power-to-X Storage Including the Novel Concept of Renewable Metal Energy Carriers
Study on ten questions concerning the design of urban energy systems
Integrated UES design should consider spatial, temporal, and sectoral interdependencies.
Review on the Digitalization of Urban Multi-Energy Systems – Advances in Digital Twin applications across Life-Cycle Phases
Urban multi-energy system's digital twins (UMES DTs) are emerging in the energy landscape.
Project FOSTER_DHN: A New Open-Source Simulation Tool for District Heating Network (DHN) Planning
Facilitate Overall and Systemic Transition to Efficient and Renewable District Heating Network
topGrid live erleben – jetzt die Video-Demo anschauen!
topGrid ist ein web-basiertes Tool für die strategische Energieplanung von thermischen Netzen
Dr. Tim Walmsley from the University of Waikato (New Zealand) visited OST from 23–27 June 2025
Thanks for the inspiring visit and partnership across hemispheres
Identification of District Heating and Cooling system archetypes: a novel approach applied to a case study in Switzerland
A novel bottom-up methodology to identify representative District Heating and Cooling (DHC) system archetypes in Switzerland
Plan K AG gewinnt den Building Award 2025 in der Kategorie Energiesysteme und Gebäudetechnik
Am 24. Juni 2025 durfte die Plan K AG aus Suhr den Building-Award 2025 entgegennehmen
BFE-Tagung zur Schweizer Wärmepumpenforschung, 12. Juni 2025, Eventfabrik, Bern
Wärmepumpen gelten als Schlüsseltechnologie zur Dekarbonisierung des Gebäude- und Industriesektors.
4th DeCarbCH Annual Networking Conference
3-4 March 2025, Seminar-Konferenzhotel, Olten
Save the date!
Survey on challenges of integrating business sustainability: Results
ZHAW thanks the 125 firms that took the time to respond to our questionnaire.
Modeling framework SCOVILLE developed by ZHAW
SCOVILLE (Strategy Cockpits for Orchestrated Implementation of Thermal Grids in Cities and Municipalities) is a quantitative dynamic model
ReWAX – Smaller heat pump dimensioning by X-to-Energy for peak load coverage
This research project analyses which energy carrier X is suitable to replace fossil-fueled peak load coverage in the future.
PeakMetal – Covering winter peaks of heat and electricity demand by «renewable metal fuels»
The research project PeakMetal (December 2022 to December 2023) was co-funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE)