We’re excited to share the latest developments in sustainable energy with the release of the USES4HEAT promotional video! This captivating video shows how Italy and Norway are pioneering the future of heating through advanced underground energy storage technology.
THUNDER solutions stretch across the value chain (data centre innovative storage providers, heat pump manufacturers and district energy company operators).
The THUNDER solutions will be validated in field conditions at the Demosite in Bulgaria where the practice of waste heat recovery from data centres is not widely diffused thus boosting the market also in those areas. Deepened replicability assessment will be done and pre-feasibility analysis developed in 10 further Demosites across all over Europe.
Want to learn more? Visit https://www.thunderproject.eu/
From 18th to 20th April, Lviv Polytechnic National University hosted a workshop on the crucial role of Artificial Intelligence in the Construction Industry, particularly relevant for Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction efforts.
The workshop brought together scientists and IT professionals from Ukraine, UK, Spain, Poland, Sweden and Turkey. Huge thanks to the 25 participants who came together to share their valuable expertise!
By addressing these challenges, the ZEBAI Project can pave the way for a more robust and sustainable construction industry that will play a vital role in rebuilding Ukraine.
TwinEU is a flagship project for the implementation of the EU Action Plan: Digitalization of the Energy System.
Dive into https://twineu.net/ to explore Europe’s largest initiative for energy digitalization.
3SI was at Genoa, Italy participating at the kick off meeting of THUNDER project, that took place in 3th and 31st of January 2024 and was hosted by RINA-C.
The THUNDER project aims to overcome existing barriers hampering a wide adoption of DCs waste heat recovery strategies, providing an innovative, efficient and cost attractive Seasonal Thermal storage based on Thermochemical Materials. THUNDER solutions stretch across the value chain (data centre innovative storage providers, heat pump manufacturers and district energy company operators). The THUNDER solutions will be validated in field conditions at the Demosite in Bulgaria where the practice of Waste Heat Recovery from Data Centers is not widely diffused thus boosting the market also in those areas.
The kick off meeting of the TwinEU project, took place in 15th and 16th of January in Brussels.
ZEBAI engages 18 organisations from 8 different countries, including universities and research centres, SMEs, and large industrial partners. It is an ambitious integrative project in which a broad range of interdisciplinary teams collaborate in defining a novel methodology enhanced by artificial intelligence (AI) to design and construct zero-emission buildings (ZEB). ZEBAI addresses the challenge of achieving ZEB from the initial phases of the building design, and tests four representative demonstrators (located in Ukraine, Spain, United Kingdom, and Netherlands). ZEBAI relies on previously funded European research projects and aligns with several national initiatives in which the partners collaborate.
The meeting was designed to provide a general overview of the whole project and to agree to a common understanding of goals
and steps towards the achievement of these goals. Main key areas of the project, such as its scope, implementation (in the form of work packages), expected risks, resources and schedule were discussed and some immediate action points were agreed by the partners.
The USES4HEAT project kicked off in December 2023 to enable decarbonised and reliable heating supply through innovative large scale seasonal thermal energy storage solutions.
USES4HEAT (full name: Underground Large Scale Seasonal Energy Storage for Decarbonised and Reliable Heat) will demonstrate two innovative, cost-effective, large-scale seasonal underground thermal energy storage (TES) units to maximise the availability and resilience of heating supply, reducing significantly both energy losses and environmental impacts. The two TES units will be fully connected to large-scale district heating networks (DHN) able to accumulate various sustainable sources of heat (waste heat, solar thermal and hybrid, geothermal, power-to-heat).
Six additional key enabling innovative technologies ensuring maximal optimisation as well as sector and system integration will also be developed along the TES. AI, big-data analytics driven and cloud-based O&M algorithms will maximise the efficiency of the TES, ensuring a more reliable and efficient future heating system.
“The project will be a cornerstone for the full market uptake of large-scale seasonal thermal energy storage as a key solution for modern heating systems. We will be able to explore and exploit the enormous potential for further large-scale replications, pushing towards a soon carbon-neutral economy in Europe. The deployment of large-scale seasonal TES harvesting important amounts of renewable and waste heat and excess electricity, and their full interaction with district heating networks, is crucial for the decarbonisation of the heating system in the current green transition context in Europe’’ says Silvia Trevisan, researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and scientific and technical manager of USES4HEAT.
Today, residential, commercial and industrial heat needs below 150°C account for more than a third of the EU’s total energy demand and are mainly based on fossil fuels. Achieving a climate neutral economy by 2050, as set out in the European Climate Change Act and the European Green Deal, is a major challenge requiring the decarbonisation of European heating and cooling. In this sense, district heating and cooling is recognised as a key solution as it allows the integration of renewable energy sources and the use of various forms of excess and waste heat, while contributing to the stability and coupling of energy systems. To fully capitalise on this untapped high potential of DHN, the vast deployment and integration of large scale, seasonal TES solutions will be essential.
In line with the Horizon Europe’s (HE) Cluster 5 Strategic Plan, USES4HEAT is going to contribute to the “Clean and sustainable transition of the energy and transport sectors towards climate neutrality facilitated by innovative crosscutting solutions” developing and demonstrating solutions which could be exploited also for other sectors. USES4HEAT has received more than 9.7 million euros in funding from the EU’s HE Programme and will run from December 2023 to November 2027.
Coordinated by KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden), the USES4HEAT outstanding consortium is composed of 27 partners spanning the entire innovation value chain from all over Europe:
Contact
Project coordinator
Andrew Martin, KTH
Scientific & Technical Manager
Silvia Trevisan, KTH
Press and media inquiries
Martin Stroleny, Euroheat & Power AISBL
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