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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.

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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

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Study on ten questions concerning the design of urban energy systems

Integrated UES design should consider spatial, temporal, and sectoral interdependencies.

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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.

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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

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topGrid live erleben – jetzt die Video-Demo anschauen!

topGrid ist ein web-basiertes Tool für die strategische Energieplanung von thermischen Netzen

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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

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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

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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

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BFE-Tagung zur Schweizer Wärmepumpenforschung, 12. Juni 2025, Eventfabrik, Bern

Wärmepumpen gelten als Schlüsseltechnologie zur Dekarbonisierung des Gebäude- und Industriesektors.

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4th DeCarbCH Annual Networking Conference

3-4 March 2025, Seminar-Konferenzhotel, Olten

Save the date!

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Survey on challenges of integrating business sustainability: Results

ZHAW thanks the 125 firms that took the time to respond to our questionnaire.

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Modeling framework SCOVILLE developed by ZHAW

SCOVILLE (Strategy Cockpits for Orchestrated Implementation of Thermal Grids in Cities and Municipalities) is a quantitative dynamic model

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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.

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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)

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