IEA ECES ANNEX 36 – Carnot Batteries
This technology is particularly impressive due to the cheap storage medium, compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries, and the possible scalability up to the GWh range. The storage medium used is inexpensive, harmless and abundant material such as rock, sand or air. In times of increasing electrification, Carnot batteries can thus make a significant contribution to […]
Stanz+ An innovative, energy-flexible plus-energy quarter – the centre of the village Stanz
Starting point / motivationOne of the central tasks of a municipality such as Stanz / Mürztal is to increase the future viability and quality of life of the municipality through innovations in different municipal action areas and thereby stop the migration and shrinking process. The team of the e5 community of Stanz, together with committed […]
TechAdZero – Key technologies of adaptive building skins for nearly zero energy high-rise buildings
Starting point / motivation The EPBD requires all new buildings from 2021 to be nearly zero-energy buildings (nZEB). Meanwhile, China has issued and implemented the “Technical Standard for Nearly Zero Energy Consumption Buildings” GB/T 51350 since 2019. The building envelope is of particular importance in the design of nZEBs. Besides active energy production, the building’s […]
RENEWnow – New impulses for the highly energy-efficient renovation of big-volume residential buildings and districts
Although technical solutions for the renovation of multi-storey residential buildings exist, the renovation rate still stagnates at a low level. This means that the ambitious climate protection goals in the building sector cannot be achieved. The reasons for the low renovation activities are manifold. With the currently usual renovation processes, techniques and costs and the […]
RES-DHC
In particular it aims at the development of solutions and instruments which support policy and sector stakeholders in (over-)fulfilling Art. 24 of the Renewable Energy Directive II (directive 2018/2001), requiring a yearly increase of RES in DHC by 1%. The main objective of the RES-DHC project is to support the transformation of existing urban DHC […]
Nahwärmeverbund 4.0 – Research Network for Local Heating, Digitization, Heat Network Technologies & techno-economic evaluation of R&D&I measures
This is based on an innovative benchmarking system using Data Envelopment Analysis of pseudonymized data sets of Austrian biomass heating plants and heating networks for R&D, a digitization package including Advanced Data Analysis and demonstrated technical R&DI measures in four key areas. The “Nahwärmeverbund 4.0” will be positioned as a one-stop-shop in the target group […]
Öko-Opt-Aktiv – Optimized control and operating behavior of thermally activated buildings of future urban quarters
The project Öko-Opt-Aktiv aims to improve the control strategies of the energy systems of entire urban districts. Optimised interaction of the buildings’ energy subsystems, the integration of volatile regenerative energy sources and central storage management aim at the activation of both economic and ecological potentials for improvement. Currently the energy system of an urban quarter […]
IEA IETS Annex 19 – Industrial electrification
The focus is on the different technical approaches e.g. cross-sectional vs. highly specific processes, low-temperature applications with heat pumps vs. high-temperature applications and power-to-X, as well as the necessary technical and legislative infrastructure like demand response, storage, politics as well as renewable potentials.As long as electricity is generated from renewable sources, the electrification of industrial […]
Smart Mainstreaming – Demonstration of the multiplicability of participative processes in standard residential construction
Through the early, active involvement of relevant actors, such as future residents, community members and neighbours from Eggersdorf, attractive design spaces are created even before construction begins. By networking all interested parties and creating a common vision for living in the community, it is possible to achieve added value for all those involved through affordability, […]
energy²POG – Hybrid Energy Concept for Steirereck/Pogusch – Renewable Energies and Cost Efficient Operation
The aim of the project is the conception, optimization and demonstration of a hybrid energy supply system optimized in respect to operational material flows for a restaurant and hotel business in an exposed location. There is no doubt that residential buildings have a high potential with regard to the implementation of sustainability goals. Special buildings, […]