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International call for heating and cooling projects

Researchers can now submit papers for the 18th International Symposium on District Heating and Cooling.

The European partnership "Driving Urban Transitions to a Sustainable Future" has published its first call for funding. 

The European Union (EU) has published the new funding call ,,Joint Call 2022'' with a budget of around 140 million euros

 Mannheim-based energy company MVV is building a river water source heat pump along the bank of the Rhine by the GKM power station in Mannheim.

The winner of the international student competition Solar Decathlon Europe has been announced: 

The Solar Decathlon Europe in Wuppertal will present the ideas that international students have for a climate-friendly building stock.

Extending, adding storeys, closing gaps between buildings: Students at SDE 21/22 show what sustainable housing in cities can look like.

In the interview, Dr. -Ing. Jan de Boer talks about an international research project on "Integrated solutions for daylight and artificial light".

The Solar Heating and Cooling Programme of the International Energy Agency (IEA SHC) calls for nominations for the SHC Solar Award 2022.

On the Solar Campus in Wuppertal 18 building models and concepts will soon become reality.

On a former coal island in the inland port of Duisburg, hydrogen-based energy is to be generated and stored in the future, among other things.

How can we store surplus thermal energy in the summer and then use it in the winter?

Around 115,000 people visited the Solar Decathlon Europe competition in Wuppertal in summer 2022.

Photovoltaic thermal systems can generate electricity and heat with solar energy.

A team in the "FW-Liner" project has investigated how district heating pipelines can be renovated in a resource-saving way.

In selected districts in Jena, experts will demonstrate how energy producers, storage systems, and consumers can be intelligently linked.

German and Finnish researchers have investigated ways in which heating networks can benefit from intelligent building technology.

A residential complex comprising four 3- or 5-storey buildings with basements and an unconverted attic was in need of refurbishment.

Geothermal collectors and solar collectors can be combined as bivalent heat sources for heat pumps. This promises some advantages.

With this research project, corrosion processes are being investigated in heating and cooling systems.

A modular, integrated energy system model is being developed to help municipalities and urban planners implement climate protection measures.

In this project, the implementation of energy-efficient district concepts in systemically interlinked districts is being investigated.

In the WaveSave project, planning and optimisation tools for building energy systems are being developed for supplying decentralised electricity.

Until now, only about one per cent of the existing building stock in Germany is refurbished every year.