The SWEET-CROSS activity will come to an end in December 2022. The CROSS final event will take place on January 18th, 2023 in Bern.

Armin is leading the WP06 on the Case Study of the City of Zurich

The Urban Energy System Laboratory at Empa is performing the analysis to decarbonize the district heating network

Thermal networks as a generation project

Strategic planning of infrastructure and energy supply concepts is essential to manage the energy transition in a city like Zurich

The planned development of thermal grids in Zurich entails uncertainties regarding customer acceptance.

In the Canton Basel-Stadt since October 2017, followed by the Cantons Zurich and Geneva since September 2022

Thermal energy storage help accelerate the decarbonization of thermal grids: DeCarbCH explores possibilities for Zurich

Swiss cities are installing heating network but many lacks plan to install cooling network.

#dontforgetcooling

Pierre is leading the WP07 on Case studies Romandie: Strategies and potentials of temperature reduction on existing district heating networks

Case study 1: District heating network in Les Ponts de Martel (Neuchâtel)

Case study 2: District heating network CAD-SIG

Review of substation architectures and optimizations to lower the return temperature on district heating networks (DHN)

District heating substation ranking by their influence on primary return temperature.

Example of a district heating substation