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Horizon 2020 District Heating and Cooling

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  • Energy cooperation kind: District cooling, District heating
  • Described aspects: Social/ Managerial, Technical
  • Target group: Project managers (Park/ ESCO)
  • Expertise level: Intermediate
  • Course material type: Handbook, Presentation
  • Language: English

The Horizon2020 project Heat Roadmap Europe has shown that the heating and cooling sector in Europe can be fully decarbonized based on technologies and approaches which already exist, are market-ready and have been successfully implemented in Europe. The heating and cooling sector represents the largest energy sector today. By redesigning the energy system and combining end-use savings with heat pumps and district heating and cooling using excess heat, efficiency and renewable sources, over 4.340 Mton CO2 emissions can be reduced accounting for a reduction of 86% compared to 1990. In addition, this is an economic transition creating jobs, increasing expenditures in local energy efficiency and use of local resources, creating a heat supply more resilient to fuel price fluctuations [HRE, Deliverable 6.4, 2018] 

This course manual is part of the R-ACES course ‘Horizon 2020 District Heating and Cooling’. It combines the knowledge built up in several district heating and cooling projects within Horizon2020 as well as a few Interreg projects in one focused course structure. The goal is to provide an introductory-level course on district heating and cooling in Europe. It first introduces the European Energy Strategy, followed by six lessons on various district heating and cooling technologies.  

Each lesson is filled with presentations, videos, use cases and evaluation material. In the lesson introduction, you find the learning goals of the lesson. You are asked to read the several materials and watch the audovisual material. Afterwards, you can answer the questions formulated in the evaluation material document. 

In this course you will: 

  • Learn about European Energy Strategy 
  • Be introduced to a selection of presentations, text documents and videos on how district heating and cooling can contribute to Paris Agreement targets in Europe. The course was built on knowledge and materials from projects in the Horizon2020 and Interreg programmes. 
  • Practice and reflect on the lessons using evaluation materials as well as use cases from the R-ACES use case library.  

About this course: This course combines the insights of several European Projects. R-ACES gathered the material grouped the material in one course. We did not modify the materials developed by other projects and are not responsible for the content of these materials.

European Energy Strategy (Low Temp)

This is the first lesson on the European Energy Strategy. The content of this course was based on dissemination products from EU funded projects in the Horizon 2020 programme and Interreg. In this material you will: – Learn about the European Energy Strategy – Learn how to interpret the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as part of the European Energy Stategy – Analyse the greenhouse gas emission reduction targets of your own country – Reflect on the progress and on the upcoming Fitfor55 target

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Handout Intro Climate Protection Policy and Goals

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GHG emissions for all world countries

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Use Case Involvement of Industrial Parties

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Use Case Hydrogen Valley in the Northern Netherlands

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Presentation

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Evaluation Material

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Audovisual Material
On 14 July 2021, the European Commission adopted a package of proposals to make the EU’s climate, energy, land use, transport and taxation policies fit for reducing net greenhouse gas emission by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels. Watch the press conference as well as short explanatory clips on the various Green Deal components in the following link: https://audiovisual.ec.europa.eu/en/topnews/M-006762

Introduction to District Heating and Cooling

The course material in this lesson uses slides of the Horizon2020 project Flexynets funded by the European Union. In this material you will learn about the potential of district heating and cooling (dhc), challenges in designing dhc networks and the Flexynets approach compared to conventional network design.

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District Heating and Cooling – Flexynets

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Use Case Redesigning District Heating Networks for Cooling Capacity

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Use Case Establishment of a district heating network in Ghent

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Evaulation Material

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Audiovisual Materials
Watch the video Vision 2050 -Decarbonising DHC For Our Cities (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrVeYlUTbY8) by Euroheat & Power on how District Heating and Cooling can contribute to a carbon neutral future.

Introduction to Geothermal Energy

The course material in this lesson uses slides of the Horizon2020 project progRESsHEAT funded by the European Union. In this material you will learn about the potential of geothermal energy for heating, cooling and electricity generation. The material covers deep and near surface geothermal energy. In the end, you will have an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of geothermal energy.

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Geothermal

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User Case Utilization of Deep Geothermal Energy

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Use Case Largest Geothermal Project in Hungary

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Geothermal the Solution Underneath

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Pipe Systems

The course material in this lesson uses slides of the InterregBSR project LowTEMP funded by the European Union. In this material you will learn about different configurations of pipesystems, material and trends in district heating networks and system integration.

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Use Case Plymouth 5th generation heating and cooling

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Technical design framework for cold heating and cooling networks

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Energielandschap Toolkit Warmtenetten

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District Heating Network Pipe Sizing

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Perspectives on fourth and fifth generation district heating

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4th Generation District Heating

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Pipe Systems Low Temp

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Combined Heat and Power

The course material in this lesson uses slides of the Interreg-BSR project LowTEMP funded by the European Union. In this material you will learn about the potential of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for the simultaneous generation of electricity and heat with one system. In the end, you will have an understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of CHP.

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Use Case Hjallerup District Heating

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Use Case Upgrading the Performance of Tuzla’s District Heating Networks

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Use Case Low Energy Houses in Windsbach

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Combined Heat and Power LowTEMP

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Combioned Heat and Power – ProgRESsHEAT

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Evaluation Material

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Large Scale Heatpumps

The course material in this lesson uses slides of the Interreg-BSR project LowTEMP funded by the European Union. In this material you will learn about the benefits of integrating large scale heat pumps into District Heating systems. The material covers heat pump designs, possible heat sources, the Coefficient of Performance indicator, system integration, refrigerants and economic viability.

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Use Case Utilization of seawater as a heat source

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Use Case Low Grade Waste Heat Recovery in steel making industry by coupling of large heat pump and gas expander

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Use Case Energy Solutions to deliver first cross-sectoral ETES Heat Pump System

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Large Scale Heat Pumps – Low TEMP

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Heat Pumps ProgRESsHEAT

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