RES-DHC: Transformation of existing urban district heating and cooling systems from fossil to renewable energy sources | Euroheat & Power

RES-DHC stands for a wider introduction of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the District Heating and Cooling (DHC) sector. The RES-DHC project addresses the manifold market uptake challenges related to the transformation of DHC systems to higher shares of RES.

The main objective of the RES-DHC project is to support the transformation of existing urban DHC systems to RES in six participating regions and thereby to derive – from these practical cases – technical and organizational solutions for such transformation processes. RES-DHC will develop the solutions and instruments needed to implement the EU Renewable Energy Directive II (2018/2001), which requires a yearly increase of RES in DHC by 1 %. The project will assist in the transformation of existing urban DHC systems in six countries: Germany, Austria, Italy, Poland, France and Switzerland.

Partners:

The 15 project partners from 8 countries are:

• Solites – Steinbeis Research Institute for Solar and Sustainable Thermal Energy Systems (Germany)
• German District Heating Association AGFW (Germany)
• HIR Hamburg Institut Research gGmbH (Germany)
• City of Graz – Environmental Department (Austria)
• Energie Graz GmbH & Co. KG (Austria)
• AEE – Institute for Sustainable Technologies (Austria)
• Iren SpA (Italia)
• Ambiente Italia s.r.l. (Italia)
• Szczecinska Energetyka Cieplna Sp. z o.o. (SEC) (Poland)
• Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Energy Environment Agency (AURA-EE) (France)
• Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et Aux Energies Alternatives (CEA INES) (France)
• Planair SA (Switzerland)
• Verenum AG (Switzerland)
• PlanEnergi Fond (Denmark
• Euroheat & Power (Belgium)

Duration:

September 2020 – August 2023

Funding:

Horizon 2020 research and innovation program

Website:

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/952873

www.res-dhc.eu

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