The RELaTED project interacts with an array of other EU funded projects focusing on developing sustainable heating and cooling solutions in Europe.

The overall objective of REWARDHeat is to demonstrate a new generation of low-temperature district heating and cooling networks, which will be able to recover renewable and waste heat, available at low temperature. These networks will be able to increase production and distribution efficiency by recovering, renewable and waste heat available at low temperature.

By focusing on the exploitation of energy sources in urban environments, the replicability and upscaling potential of the decentralized solutions will be maximised. These solutions aim to promote a cost efficient and technically viable decarbonisation of the European DHC sector.

D2GRIDS is an acronym for ‘demand driven grids’. This Interreg North-West Europe (NWE) project, coordinated by Mijnwater Ltd., aims to upscale 5th generation District Heating and Cooling (5G DHC) grids across Europe. They will allow to anticipate the needs or sources of fatal heat, cold or renewable electricity in their vicinity. Similarly, local collective self-consumption logic will be optimized by broadly integrating heating and cooling needs, storage capacities or associated thermal or electrical flexibility.

The objective is to maximize the share of renewable energies in these local energy loops, through an industrialization of the approach, a standardized technological model, and a clarification of the business model to strengthen the interest of these projects for third party investors.

Chess Setup (Combined HEat SyStem by using Solar Energy and heaT pUmPs) objective is to design, implement and promote a reliable, efficient and profitable system able to supply heating and hot water in buildings mainly from renewable sources.

The proposed system is based on an optimal combination of solar thermal energy production, seasonal heat storage and the use of highly efficient heat pumps. The system operation will be optimized according to some external factors, as the electricity price or the users’ requirements by using a smart control and management systems developed specifically for the project.

eTEACHER aims to reduce energy consumption through more conscious energy behaviour of energy end-users in a wide range of buildings and through tailored methods and strategies.
Changes in users’ behaviour have significant potential to reduce energy consumption in buildings. These changes include those ones motivated by innovative technological interventions. However, in this case it is important that users are not only informed but also sufficiently consulted, trained and supported regarding the technological changes to avoid poor performance in practice. The design of this project, incorporating social studies, consultation and testing of innovations, responds to this challenge to enable efficient and effective deployment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to encourage behavioural change.

The Heat Roadmap Europe project is mapping and modelling the heating and energy systems of the 14 largest users of heat in the EU, to develop new policies at the local, national, and EU level to ensure the uptake of efficient, sustainable, and affordable heating and cooling solutions. These 14 countries cover 85-90% of the heating and cooling demands in Europe!

THERMOS (Thermal Energy Resource Modelling and Optimisation System) is an EU Horizon 2020 funded research project that will develop the methods, data, and tools to enable public authorities and other stakeholders to undertake more sophisticated thermal energy system planning, far more rapidly and cheaply than they can today.

The ReUseHeat project will showcase replicable models enabling the recovery and reuse of excess heat available at urban level, with the aim to increase energy efficiency of district heating and cooling systems in cities across Europe.

The project “Low Temperature District Heating for the Baltic Sea Region” (LowTEMP) will make the district heating supply in the partner regions more sustainable and promote the installation of so-called 4th generation district heating networks. These systems are characterised by the transfer of lower temperature heat in optimally insulated pipes with reduced pipe dimensions. At the same time, multiple heat supply options are possible in these systems, i.e. the use of waste heat from industrial processes as well as renewable heat sources like geothermal and solar-thermal.

The project aims to showcase how District Heating systems can be more resource efficient and more energy efficient. COOL DH is designed to innovate, demonstrate, evaluate and disseminate technological solutions needed to use sources of very low-grade waste heat for heating of energy efficient buildings via Low Temperature District Heating (LTDH).

PLANHEAT will develop and validate an integrated and easy-to-use tool to support local authorities in selecting, simulating and comparing alternative low carbon and economically sustainable scenarios for heating and cooling. It will be validated in the three PLANHEAT cities.

The overarching goal of Hotmaps is the development of an open source heating / cooling mapping and planning toolbox and to provide default data for EU28 at national and local level. These data and tool allow public authorities to identify, analyse, model and map resources and solutions to supply energy needs within their territory of responsibility in a resource and cost efficient way. Those results will help authorities to develop heating and cooling strategies on local, regional and national scale which are in line with RES and CO₂-Emission targets on national and EU level.

The progRESsHEAT project (March 2015- October 2017) assisted local, regional, national and EU political leaders in developing policy and strategies to ensure a quick and efficient deployment of renewables in heating and cooling networks.

All project resources (local strategy development process, national analyses, policy recommendations, training materials, webinars and event reports) are available on the website www.progressheat.eu.

SDHp2m stands for Solar District Heating (SDH) and actions from Policy to Market. The project addresses market uptake challenges for a wider use of district heating and cooling systems (DHC) with high shares of RES, specifically the action focuses on the use of large-scale solar thermal plants combined with other RES in DHC systems.

Tempo develops technical innovations that enable district heating networks to operate at lower temperatures and make them suitable for a sustainable energy system.

The project aims to combine individual technologies into solution packages for dedicated application areas covering 90% of the European district heating market. TEMPO further seeks to empower consumers through digital solutions and will develop new business models.

HeatNet will address the challenge of reducing CO₂ emissions in North West Europe by creating an integrated transnational NWE approach to the supply of renewable and low carbon heat (incl. waste heat) to residential and commercial buildings. District Heating and Cooling facilitates energy efficiency, less CO₂ emissions and a greener economy.

The RES H/C SPREAD project (ended in 2016) was aimed at developing six pilot regional plans for heating and cooling from renewable energy that could further support the planning efforts of other regions. It involved six regions – Castilla y Leon (Spain), Emilia Romagna (Italy), Riga (Latvia), Rhodope (Bulgaria), Western Macedonia (Greece) and Salzburg (Austria) – representing the main EU climatic zones, most of which are in the Mediterranean. The project paid special attention to improving participatory governance, enabling the cooperation of local, regional and national stakeholders. To this end, each region established its own country governance committee to support the development and implementation of the plans.

LowUP – which stands for ‘Low valued energy sources UPgrading for buildings and industry uses’– will contribute to achieving Europe’s GHG reduction targets and increase energy efficiency.

The project will develop and demonstrate three new efficient heating and cooling technologies that will significantly reduce both CO2 emissions and primary energy consumption.

The CE-HEAT project aims to improve the governance of energy efficiency by focusing on the field of waste heat utilization in Central Europe space and through increased exploitation of endogenous RES – waste heat. This field was identified as one of the most pressing issues at the regional and local scale – with little success in the past.

At the same time, the waste heat utilization is recognized as important issue in the latest Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). In order to improve governance in waste heat utilization, better and comprehensive planning, but also monitoring tools are needed.

 Large quantities of waste heat are continuously rejected from industries. Most of this waste energy, however, is of low-quality and is not practical or economical to recover it with current technologies. The Indus3Es project will develop an innovative Absorption Heat Transformer (AHT) for this purpose, focused on low temperature waste heat recovery (below 130ºC, referred to a recovered waste heat source temperature).

The Indus3Es System will effectively recover and revalorize almost 50% of the low temperature waste heat, increasing quality of the waste source to the required temperature and reusing it again in the industrial process.

BERTIM will develop a prefabricated solution which will provide the opportunity to renovate improving energy performance, air quality, aesthetics, comfort, and property value at the same time while ensuring low intrusiveness during renovation works.

 The main objective of TASIO project is to develop solutions dealing with the development of Waste Heat Recovery Systems (WHRS) based on the Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) technology.