How can renewable energies be integrated both into conventional heating networks with high temperatures and into innovative cooling networks? And how can entire settlements or city districts be made more climate-friendly with the use of heating networks? The Agency for Renewable Energies (AEE) provides the answers to these questions in its animation "Municipal Heat Networks".
Among other things, AEE looks at practical examples in German municipalities. These show how solar thermal energy, waste heat, residual wood, photovoltaics and heat pumps can contribute to decarbonization - i.e. the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions through low-carbon energy sources.
With the animation, which is available at waermewende.de/kommunale-waermenetze, and other activities within the framework of the "Kommunale Wärmewende" project, AEE aims to publicize technologies and strategies, promote exchange between experts and help municipalities. The project of AEE and the Fraunhofer Institute for Energy Economics and Energy System Technology is funded by the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt.
Sources: unendlich-viel-energie.de & waermewende.de/kommunale-waermenetze/
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