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Editorial

Ricky Karl Henahan

The RELaTED exploitation seminar shows that with ultra-low temperature district heating, everyone wins

Author: Richard Karl Henahan – Research Analyst at the Institute of Baltic Studies. Richard Karl Henahan – Research Analyst at the Institute of Baltic Studies.

Last April, RELaTED partners took part in a three-day virtual exploitation seminar to formulate their individual exploitation plans. Exploitation plans help project beneficiaries develop a strategy and concrete actions for the protection, dissemination, and exploitation …

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New Outputs

RELaTED 7th General Assembly

RELaTED partners made great advances in last 6 months

On November 24th, the RELaTED project partners came together online at the RELaTED 7th General Assembly. The meeting, that took place in a virtual format, was a great opportunity to talk about their advances in the RELaTED Ultra-Low Temperature district heating solution and establish the work plan for the following semester. After 6 months of hard work, the RELaTED H2020 …

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Beyond2020

Energy meters in District-Heating Substations for Heat Consumption Characterization and Prediction Using Machine-Learning Techniques

The use of smart energy meters enables the monitoring of large quantity of data related to heat consumption patterns in buildings connected to DH networks. This information can be used to understand the interaction between building and the final users´ without accurate information about building characteristics and occupational rates. In this paper, presented at Beyond 2020 digital event, an intuitive …

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NSB 2020

Data driven process for the energy assessment of building envelope retrofits

In the paper "Data driven process for the energy assessment of building envelope retrofits", a novel method is proposed based on whole-building heat load assessment by means of heat meters, and analytical calculations of building envelope transmission heat load coefficients.

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solar thermal facade

Energy & economic assessment of façade-integrated solar thermal systems combined with ultra-low temperature district-heating

Authors: Roberto Garay, project coordinator of RELaTED and Mikel Lumbreras, researcher at TECNALIA, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA).

This paper, published in the journal Renewable Energy (Volume 159, October 2020, Pages 1000-1014), conducts an energy and economic assessment of District Heating (DH) integrated Solar Thermal (ST) systems. An implementation with building-integrated ST collectors coupled to a Low Temperature District Heating …

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Turning waste into energy for Belgrade's district heating

Turning waste into energy for Belgrade's district heating

The ambitious Belgrade Energy-from-Waste project received the IJ Global European Waste deal of the year 2019 award on 20th July 2020. IJGlobal recognize and reward excellent and exceptional performance across all regions, globally. Vinca Landfill Site october 2018. The project, the first of its kind in Serbia, addresses one of the most urgent environmental challenges in Europe updating the City's …

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Participation at events

Smaccs master programm invites Roberto Garay, coordinator of RELaTED project

SMACCs master programme invites the RELaTED Project coordinator to talk about district heating

The University of the Basque Country invites the RELaTED Project coordinator, Roberto Garay, for the second consecutive year, to be part of a seminar organized by the Master Programme in Smart Cities and Communities SMACCs. The seminar will be held from 1st to …

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RELaTED Project presentation at Sustainable Places 2020: new developments on Ultra Low Temperature District Heating networks

RELaTED Project presentation at Sustainable Places 2020: new developments on Ultra Low Temperature District Heating networks

The RELaTED project was presented at at Sustainable Places 2020, held as digital event due to the health situation in Europe. Antonio Garrido Marijuan explained the main developments of RELaTED within the Integration of Renewables in DHC for Sustainable Living workshop, held on 28th October 2020. The workshop intended to exchange new ideas, lessons learnt from implementation and proposals about …

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Demonstration sites

Belgrade district heating main central plants

District Heating De-Carbonisation in Belgrade. Multi-Year transition plan

The present article, presented at Beyond 2020 digital event, summarizes the renovation plans for the District Heating network of the city of Belgrade. The paper includes the criteria for the selection of the technologies, the identification of enabling investments, interaction with stakeholders, securing of financing, and status of the plan.

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About RELaTED project

The project “Renewable Low Temperature District” (RELaTED), funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, aims to develop a robust ultra-low temperature concept, which allow for the incorporation of low-grade heat sources with minimal constraints.

The main objective is to demonstrate the feasibility of the concept in European urban environments, and its suitability for the upcoming operational environment with reduced heat loads and distributed heat sources. To prove this, the concept will be demonstrated in four real demonstrations sites (Denmark, Estonia, Serbia and Spain), with two additional feasibility studies. However, some technologies must be adapted to the particularities of the system.

Under the coordination of TECNALIA Research & Innovation, the Consortium is composed by the companies NIBE, METRO THERM, INAVENTA SOLAR, INNOMETAL, IBS, TDC, Mazovian Energy Agency, Basque Energy Agency and FEDARENE; and DH operators as BEOELEKTRANE, FORTUM Tartu, DTI and the Basque Government. These companies will work together to provide a framework for the integration of many renewable heat sources into a low temperature DH system.

Contact

RELaTED Project Coordinator
Roberto Garay

TECNALIA
roberto.garay[a]tecnalia.com

Dissemination and Communication responsible
Maria Alcubilla

El Taller de Comunicacion, TDC
malcubilla[a]comunicacionycia.com

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