Smart City / Smart Grids
Thinking energy through at district scale.
Strategic advice and operational delivery of energy system solutions.
The lever
The optimisation potential lies in the combination.
Considerable optimisation potential lies in combining the different renewable energy sources. Waste heat from data centres, for example, should be used to heat buildings. In future, joined-up thinking should be applied far earlier — already in the design phase of new construction projects — with the entire value chain, starting with the investment, analysed and optimised.
We advise you on integrating deep geothermal energy, thermal storage and waste heat into the smart city and smart grid concepts of cities and industrial companies.
Fields of activity
Four building blocks of a networked energy system.
Operational system solutions, energy-efficient buildings and geothermal energy as the source — for heating and cooling buildings.
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Deep geothermal energy
Integration of deep geothermal energy at 2,000 to 3,000 m. We see the extraction of hot water in the range of medium-depth geothermal energy as a new and compelling field of activity.
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Waste heat recovery
Waste heat from data centres and industrial processes becomes the heat source for buildings and districts, instead of dissipating into the surroundings.
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Thermal storage
Seasonal and short-term storage decouples generation from demand and makes renewable energy sources predictable within the grid.
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Smart grids & smart buildings
Intelligent grids and digitalised buildings: energy-efficient buildings with geothermal energy as their source — heating and cooling in one network.
Approach
Joined-up thinking starts in the design phase.
In particular, the entire value chain of a construction project should be analysed and optimised, starting with the investment. The later in the process an energy concept emerges, the more expensive every correction becomes.