Project insights: Research for the energy transition

A residential complex comprising four 3- or 5-storey buildings with basements and an unconverted attic was in need of refurbishment.

Bioenergy has a special role to play among renewable energy sources. To achieve this, it must be able to fit flexibly into a complex energy system.

The research project is transferring the intracting funding model tested in municipalities to the special conditions that exist at universities.

For this fundamentally new heating concept, a minimally invasive refurbishment system is combined with the low-exergy heating principle.

The researchers in this project are developing correction algorithms for clamp-on flow measurement and clamp-on temperature measurement.

Geothermal collectors and solar collectors can be combined as bivalent heat sources for heat pumps. This promises some advantages.

The new building for Willibald Gluck Secondary School in Neumarkt in Upper Palatinate, Germany, has provided a new learning and living space.

In the NENIA project, a Germany-wide waste heat cadastre of all industrial sites will be created for the first tim.

Until now, only about one per cent of the existing building stock in Germany is refurbished every year.