Energy conservation through energy storage combined with intensive use of renewable energies will support the effort to meet the objectives of reduction of climatic gases formulated in the Kyoto protocol. Potential studies have shown that in Germany about 20 – 25 % of the end-energy consumption for space heating and domestic hot water can be covered by solar energy. Solar district heating with ...

The 5th Generation District Heating and Cooling (5GDHC) network has great advantages in terms of integration low-temperature resources, bi-directional operation, decentralised energy flows, possible sharing. One way to develop the idea concept 5GDHC is identify potential agents, including residential buildings, office shopping malls, data centres, electrical transformers, so on, each target con...