The Urban Energy System Laboratory at Empa is performing the analysis to decarbonize the district heating network

Thermal networks as a generation project

Strategic planning of infrastructure and energy supply concepts is essential to manage the energy transition in a city like Zurich

The planned development of thermal grids in Zurich entails uncertainties regarding customer acceptance.

In the Canton Basel-Stadt since October 2017, followed by the Cantons Zurich and Geneva since September 2022

Thermal energy storage help accelerate the decarbonization of thermal grids: DeCarbCH explores possibilities for Zurich

Swiss cities are installing heating network but many lacks plan to install cooling network.

#dontforgetcooling

Pierre is leading the WP07 on Case studies Romandie: Strategies and potentials of temperature reduction on existing district heating networks

Case study 1: District heating network in Les Ponts de Martel (Neuchâtel)

Case study 2: District heating network CAD-SIG

Review of substation architectures and optimizations to lower the return temperature on district heating networks (DHN)

District heating substation ranking by their influence on primary return temperature.

Example of a district heating substation

TRNSYS® substation dynamic numeric models

The projects DeCarb-PUI, IntSGHP, HTHP-CH, and DeCarbCH were presented