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Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - Planheat (Integrated tool for empowering public authorities in the development of sustainable plans for low carbon heating and cooling)

Teaser

Summary

Public bodies face the lack of appropriate easy-to-use tools to support them in the definition, simulation and evaluation of suitable strategies for sustainable heating and cooling tailored to local conditions for achieving the ambitious targets set-up in their local plans. In light of this, PLANHEAT main objective is to develop and demonstrate an integrated and easy-to-use tool which will support local authorities (cities and regions) in selecting, simulating and comparing alternative low carbon and economically sustainable scenarios for heating and cooling that will include the integration of alternative supply solutions (from a panel of advanced key technologies for the new heating and cooling supply) that could balance the forecasted demand. The PLANHEAT integrated tool will be designed to support local authorities in 1) mapping the potential of locally available low carbon energy sources (with specific reference to available RES and waste energy recoverable at urban and industrial level) 2) mapping the forecasted demand for heating and cooling 3) define and simulate alternative environmentally friendly scenarios based on district heating and cooling as well as highly efficient CHP systems matching the forecasted demand, levering on the use of RES and waste energy sources and with proven economic viability 4) understanding the interactions of these new scenarios with the existing infrastructures and networks (among which district heating and cooling gas, electricity, sewage, transportation) and identify potential for further extension and upgrade of district heating and cooling networks 5) evaluate the benefits (in terms of energetic, economic and environmental KPIs) that the adoption of the new scenarios will generate against the current situation (i.e., baseline). The tool will be developed thanks to the direct support of three validation cities (Antwerp, Lecce, Velika Gorica) and the support of other PLANHEAT Supporter cities. Moreover sound training and replication strategies involving a number of other public authorities (up to 50) have been set-up towards the empowerment of the expected project impacts.

Work performed

PLANHEAT is a 36 months project. At M18, the project is progressing smoothly and 28 deliverables have been submitted in the period M1-M18. All the project goals for the period M1-18 have been successfully achieved, which help attain the overall objective of the action, i.e. the realization of the PLANHEAT tool. The tool, which structure has been agreed in Y1 by the whole consortium, is composed by three modules: mapping, planning and simulation. A prototype of the mapping module has been released on M15. (Fig.1). It can be noticed that all WPs have already started and WP1 is terminated. The PLANHEAT Training plan has been kicked off in the end of Y1. The E-Learning platform is currently active on the project website and training activities started in September 2017, Training module 1 has been completely promoted and taught via two rounds of trainings (one in Autumn 2017 and one in March 2018). Training Module 2 will be promoted from Summer 2018 also leveraging a live event to be organized by VITO at EUSEW 2018 Energy Days. An effective and proper Project Communication has been performed under the guidance of EHP, GEO and REC through website, social media, flyers and posters. As foreseen, two successful launching events have been organized, one in Krakow in March 2017 and one in Brussels in June 2017. Various dissemination activities have been already put in place as well as joint activities with PLANHEAT sisters project (THERMOS, HOTMAPS) took place also thanks to INEA/EASME initiative. In M1-18 activities concurring to the achievement of project main objective were: 1. Definition of PLANHEAT tool specification leveraging consortium partnersâ€™ existing tool also involving EU cities through a participatory approach. (WP1), 2. Identification of data required to the end users and available databases where to collect them (WP1) also in order to populate PLANHEAT WebServer Database (WP3), 3. Development of the first release of the Mapping Module (WP2), 4. Development of a Geospatial Datased of hourly variation of HDH and CDH for validation cities (WP2), 5. Development of algorithms for mapping current and future H&C demand and RES (WP2), 6. Definition of the Planning Module specification and first development activities according to Mapping module outcomes. Definition of planning criteria also the guide the future development of planning module (WP3), 7.Definition of the integrated structure, language of the module, API and Open Source Licence (WP4), 8.Preliminary validation activities in three validation cities: Antwerp, Velika Gorica, Lecce (WP4), 9.Establishment of a training plan developed thanks to an E-Learning Platform (WP5), 10.Start of the collection of data related to National Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficiency plans to be connected to local H&C Plans (WP5), 11. Robust dissemination campaign to engage cities to the project and involve them in the PLANHEAT Training (WP6) â€“ Two launching events already organised in East Europe (Krakow) and in Brussels, 12. Preliminary identification of project Key Exploitable Results (KERs) (WP6),13. Definition of Data Management Plan and Ethics Issues for handling project research data (WP7 â€“ WP8)

Final results

PLANHEAT tool is composed by three modules (Mapping, Planning and Simulating) integrated with a WebServer database where the end-user is able to find useful data coming from available EU databases (already identified in D1.6). The tool will be completely OpenSource and first of its kind integrating in a single platform all these functionalities, furthermore it will map potential unconventional heat sources at urban level thanks to novel algorithms. The main objective of the project is not only to realize a tool, but to make this tool be used by EU cities. At this purpose, the consortium setup a training plan (composed by webinars via a dedicated E-Learning platform and pysical workshops) to encourage the use of the tool by EU cities. Until the end of the project it is expected to: WP2: finalize mapping module and develop innovative algorithms to map unconventional heat sources and industrial waste heat potential; WP3: realize the planning and simulation modules; WP4: integrate all PLANHEAT modules in a single tool to be validated in project validation cities. Validate it in Lecce, Velika Gorica and Antwerp in the identified areas; WP5: prepare Training module 2,3,4 material and engage up to 50 cities and 150 persons in the training plan. Organize roundtables to explain PLANHEAT tool capabilities and how the tool can support energy planners and policy makers not only for urban H&C masterplanning but also to connect National Sustainable Energy plans with local ones; WP6: keep on disseminating project results, update dissemination materials with project outcomes, identify exploitation routes for project KERs. PLANHEAT will have impact on: EU environment (triggering a decarbonisation of urban H&C systems, aiming to reduce 20% of primary energy consumption for H&C according to scenarios proposed by the tool), EU economy (mobilizing investment in new H&C installation, creating jobs and new markets), EU Policy (identifying techno-economically viable scenarios to be promoted by EU policy and regulation for the decarbonization of urban H&C).