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Workshops on 5GDHC Market transformation potential
D2Grids is an Interreg North West Europe (NWE) project lasting over 5 years (2018-2023) which aims at increasing the share of renewable energies used for heating & cooling to 20% in NWE 10 years after the project ends, through accelerating (...)
Look back on the D2GRIDS conference: « on the road to 5GDHC »
The European D2GRIDS project, which aims to develop 5th GENERATION LOCAL ENERGY GRIDS organised a conference on the occasion of COP26. It took place in Glasgow and was available online. The goal was to showcase the results in developing the (...)
Action Cluster meeting Sustainable Built Environment: The construction value chain responding to the climate and environmental challenges
The Action Clusters Sustainable Built Environment of the Smart Cities Marketplace welcome Smart City enthusiasts, AC members and all interested stakeholders to take part in their bi-annual meeting round. The main challenge in ‘Sustainable Built (...)
A collective self-consumption demonstrator soon to be coupled to the Paris-Saclay 5th generation district heating and cooling network
The D2GRIDS project aims to develop 5th generation district heating and cooling networks (5GDHC) in Europe. The 5GDHC grid of the Etablissement Public d'Aménagement de Paris-Saclay is a pilot site of the D2GRIDS project and benefits all the (...)
Report on investment opportunities in the DHC sector
As part of the commercialisation work package of the D2Grids project, the team at Asper Investment Management have prepared a report on investment opportunities for project in the 5th Generation District Heating and Cooling space (5GDHC). The (...)
Drilling at the Bochum D2GRIDS pilot site
Figure 1 - Drilling site construction on Mark 51°7 / C. Krückemeier, Fraunhofer IEG, Preparations for drilling at Mark 51°7 in Bochum! What is Mark 51°7? Built on the ancient site of an Opel car plant and former Dannenbaum coal mine, it is one (...)
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