Heating and cooling solutions using renewable technologies
The WEDISTRICTproject consists of the design, integration and demonstration of renewable technologies for the production of heat and cold in urban networks (DHC) demonstrating that operating with 100% renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, thermal storage, biomass geothermics, waste heat reuse and solar cooling technologies, all managed through an advanced control and monitoring system.
Objectives
- Developing 100% renewable DHC based on an optimal mix of local renewable energy sources for new construction and retrofit projects.
- Moving towards renewable energy based cooling generation technologies.
- Achieving optimal integration of new advanced thermal storage to increase the efficiency of the DHC system.
- Reusing waste heat from data centres to power the DHC network.
- Integrating smart ICTs to intelligently manage DHC production, storage, distribution and consumption to increase grid efficiency.
- Developing an open source multi-criteria decision making tool for conducting feasibility studies of renewable energy integration in district heating and cooling systems in different regions of Europe.
- Demonstrating and validating WEDISTRICT technologies through four real-life case studies in four different regions of Europe.
- Demonstrating the replicability of the project in different commercial scenarios through virtual demonstration studies, including implementation in 4G-DHC Horizon as a backbone for smart cities.
- Demonstrating to investors the profitability of the project and developing sustainable business models.
- Promoting public acceptance and citizen engagement.
Project partners
Project coordinator:
- ACCIONA ENGINEERING
Other participants:
- FERTIBERIA
- DISTRICT HEATING ECO ENERGIAS
- POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID
- UNIVERSITY OF CÓRDOBA
- TERMOSUN ENERGIAS S.L.
- FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT DE RECERCA EN ENERGIA DE CATALUNYA
- CEPSA
- AMERICAN AIR FILTER S.A.
- ATOS SPAIN SA, SEENSO RENOVAL S.L. (Spain)
- RAMBOLL DANMARK A/S, AALBORG CSP A/S (Denmark)
- INSTITUTUL DE STUDII SI PROIECTARI ENERGETICE S.A.
- UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA DIN BUCUREȘTI (Romania)
- RISE RESEARCH INSTITUE OF SWEDEN AB (Sweden)
- EUROPEAN SCIENCE & COMMUNICATION INSTITUTE (Germany)
- CIRCULAR ENERGY RESOURCES LTD (Croatia)
- KRAJOWA AGENCJA POSZANOWANIA ENERGII S.A.
- PGNiG TERMIKA ENERGETYKA ROZPROSZONA SP. (Poland)
- RESEARCH TO MARKET SOLUTIONS SAS (France)
- LATERIZI GAMBETTOLA SRL. SOLTIGUA (Italy).
