All Projects

IEA SHC Task 73 – PVT Heating systems

Austria contributes to IEA SHC Task 73 to advance and market integrate PVT heating systems and provides standards, digital tools and monitoring data to accelerate building decarbonization.

SolarHybrid – Scalable Optimization for Large-scale Advanced Renewable-Hybrid Integrated Devices

SolarHybrid develops affordable, large-scale PVT solutions for urban applications. In future, a digital twin will facilitate the further development of components and enable performance assessment of PVT systems.

ReBuildStock – Portfolio Management for the Decarbonization of Large Residential Building Stocks

A portfolio-management method to support the decision-making processes of owners of large residential building stocks in developing strategies for the rapid and socially responsible decarbonization of their properties.

Scientific accompanying research for the Climate and Energy Fund

The scientific support research for the funding programs “Solar Thermal Energy – Large-Scale Solar Systems”, “Large-Scale Heat Storage”, and “Innovative Climate-Neutral Process Heat and Cooling for Businesses” of the Climate and Energy Fund includes advising applicants, reviewing the system design or hydraulic concept, developing monitoring concepts, 1–2 years of data analysis, optimization, and feedback to applicants and the funding agency.

TarifFlex – Price Based Demand Side Management for District Heating Grids

TarifFlex develops a software tool for calculating dynamic heat prices to better align heat demand and supply and improve the integration of renewable energy in district heating systems.

IEA EBC Annex 94 – Validation and Verification of In-situ Building Energy Performance Measurement Techniques

Austria contributes to IEA EBC Annex 94 by standardising in situ methods such as the heat transfer coefficient and delivering reliable evidence to close the performance gap for retrofit and policy.

IEA ES Task 43 – Standardized use of building mass as storage for renewable energies and grid flexibility

The IEA Task 43 will standardise the use of building mass as thermal storage and make it usable for renewable energy integration and grid flexibility.

SPuRM – Storage Potential of Underground Rock Mass

Development of novel and improvement of existing approaches for constructing large underground heat storage systems in hard rock

Future Heat Highway – Supra-regional district heating networks for industrial waste heat integration

By 2050, all heat supplied by district heating networks must derive from renewable sources or industrial waste heat. Supra-regional district heating transport pipelines contribute to this, providing heat sustainably, efficiently and over wide areas.

ATESREF – Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage and re-injection using the Example of Fürstenfeld

Development and utilisation strategies of an aquifer storage facility for seasonal heat storage for heating networks in the Styrian basin at the site of Fürstenfeld