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SWEET-CROSS (CooRdination of Scenarios and Data in SWEET)
SWEET-CROSS launches its website sweet-cross.ch
Online (Mini-)Workshop on District Heating and Energy Storage, 6 April, 2022, 14:00-16:00
Invited are all partners interested in district heating. Ongoing and completed projects will be presented and a round table discusses research needs.
Publication on the impact of Legionella regulation in 4th generation district heating systems
This paper presents an analysis of district heating substation energy use and cost in the case of a Swiss single-family household
District Thermal Systems (DTS): State of the Art and Promising Evolutive Scenarios - A focus on Italy and Switzerland
This paper reviews different classifications of District Thermal Systems (DTS) and analyses the European framework of DTS
Two new projects about the integration of storage and renewables in thermal grids at OST
The SPF Institute for Solar Technology started two new projects integrating large heat storage and renewable energies in district heating networks.
Ehub Optimization Tool
The Ehub optimization tool has been developed by the Urban Energy System Laboratory of Empa to assess the performance of multi-energy systems
How can we represent thermal networks correctly?
Matthias Berger (Leader Task 3.1) and Luca Brauchli describe the progress and work-flow within Task 1 of Work Package WP03
Interview with Dr. Tobias Sommer from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Institute of Building Technology and Energy (HSLU-IGE)
Tobias is leading the WP03: Technologies, design, and operation of thermal grids for future energy planning
Certificate of Advanced Studies CAS Thermal Networks
at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
Development of thermal networks in Switzerland: An overview
Development of thermal networks in Switzerland: An overview
Publication on modelling and optimal control of a borehole thermal energy storage (BTES)
An optimization framework was employed to determine the best operating conditions for a heat pump-driven BTES
Interview with Prof. Andreas Abegg and MLAw Annette Zoller-Eckenstein from the ZHAW School of Management and Law
Andreas and Annette are leading the legal part of WP02: Understanding legal and socio-economic integration of clean heat and cooling solutions
Doctoral Studies – Annette Zoller-Eckenstein
In October 2021, MLaw Annette Zoller-Eckenstein, started working as a research assistant at ZHAW's Center for Public Commercial Law (ZOW)
Legal Issues in the Context of Interdisciplinary Problems
The Center for Public Commercial Law (ZOW) at ZHAW supports the DeCarbCH project on legal issues
New project on Positive Energy Districts funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
The new project "Positive Energy Districts as a Suitable Instrument to Govern the Swiss Energy Transition" (PEDSET) will start in early 2022