HeatConsult is an international engineering consultancy company specializing in state-of-the-art designs for district heating (DH), district cooling (DC), and gas supply systems. Our experience spans residential, commercial, and industrial district designs in Europe and South America with more than 1000 successful engineering projects completed since 2011.
The Institute for Resource and Energy Strategies (IREES) works in the area of sustainable energy and resource utilisation, focusing on new technologies and services for energy and material efficiency in enterprises, buildings and low-emission production processes. IREES carries out interdisciplinary work in its own teams with close connections among the three business units: Energy Efficiency Company Networks, Energy Projections and Technologies and Socio-Scientific Evaluation. Here, among other things, analyses are made of market barriers and how to overcome them via policy measures and business self-organization, energy audits and strategies for enterprises and municipalities.
IREES is a private research institute established in 2006 and is active in climate change, sustainable development and energy efficiency in industry. Due to the vast diversity of specialized know-how required for such an activity, IREES works in close collaboration with other partners across Europe. IREES carries out research and consultations for several Federal Ministries in Germany, the European Commission, International Governmental Institutions and industrial companies.
IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute was jointly founded in 1966 by the Swedish state and national business interests — with a view of carrying out research on industrial air and water issues. Today it is an environmental agency concentrating on much more than that. Common to all assignments is the interaction between ecological, economic and social perspectives.
The Jožef Stefan Institute (JSI) is the leading Slovenian scientific research institute, covering a broad spectrum of basic and applied research. Energy Efficiency Centre (JSI-EEC) is the department, engaged in R&D and consulting in the field of integrated resource planning, energy policy, energy efficiency and conservation programmes, management and analysis of energy data, renewable energies, GHG (mitigation, trading and verification), energy management and environmental protection issues as well as development and promotion of energy performance contracting. Its activities are engaged at performing energy audits, feasibility studies and introduction of energy management in industry, public utilities and organisations in the commercial and public sector, including local communities. JSI-EEC has broad experiences with cogeneration and district heating systems (feasibility studies, system optimisation, support policy, etc.)
Denmark
| EHP - Active Company | DHC+ | Association / Company
Kamstrup serves energy companies, utilities and the submetering business around the world with innovative metering solutions for electricity, heat, cooling and water.
Denmark
| EHP - Partner Company | DHC+ | Association / Company
Logstor is the leading manufacturer of preinsulated pipe systems in the world, which ensure energy-efficient and sustainable transport of liquids and gases for district heating and cooling and for the shipping, oil and gas industries. The company employs around 1,200 people in 14 different countries. Production is carried out at the group’s ten factories in Denmark, China, Finland, Poland, Romania and Sweden.
Luleå University of Technology is leading in Sweden within the area of rendering more efficient basic industries and other industries using information and communication technology, so-called ProcessIT. To establish ourselves as a player on the European stage, we make use of our multidisciplinary strengths and the networks within which we have a leading position. A key area is ProcessIT (or Process industrial automation) in which several Swedish companies are world leaders in its development, delivery and application. The area is very important in order to maintain and further develop a competitive national process industry. The area constitutes a global market with growth potential for SMEs through which they can grow by developing and commercialising innovations via corporate, university and divisional collaborations.
As a result of continuous development and re-organisation, Department of Energy Sciences, Faculty of Engineering of Lund University is today a big department including 90 employees: 12 full time professors, 2 professor emeriti, 4 senior lecturers, 1 university teacher, a few post docs and about 40 PhD students. The research covers a wide range of phenomena, mechanisms, components, processes and systems in five main research areas: Efficient Energy Systems; Combustion Engines; Thermal Power Engineering; Fluid Mechanics; Heat Transfer.
Mijnwater in Heerlen deploys and operates what is probably the leading example of a 5th Generation District Heating and cooling Grid (5GDHC). While most such systems are still small, Mijnwater provides heating and cooling services to 250000 m2 of floor space; 40 km of trenches were dug for the main piping; it delivers 20TJ/a heating, and 20 TJ/a of cooling; peak heat demand is 1.7 MW; it operates 100 high performance heatm pumps of 200 kW, and 100 booster heat pumps for hot tapwater; it serves large office buildings, supermarkets, shops, educational buildings, industry, and 400 dwellings. The surrounding region of Parkstad Limburg plans for it to serve 120000 dwellings plus commercial builsings, by 2040. That makes a floorspace of 20 million m2. An investment of 3G€ for 2040.
NODA Intelligent Systems (NODA) is a spin-off SME from AI research at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. NODA was founded in 2005 and has offices in Sweden and Germany. NODA is primarily active on the Swedish and Polish markets, but is now also establishing itself on the markets in Germany, France, Benelux and the UK. The focus of NODA is to develop and market Smart Heat Grid solutions for thermal systems like district heating and cooling, heat pumps and gas. A Smart Heat Grid coordinates production constraints and consumer behaviour in order to achieve higher energy efficiency. NODA works in the whole production and delivery chain regarding product development from basic innovation research to operational products and services.
Founded in 2014, Nordic Heat is an independent peer-to-peer training and advisory service aiming to support the rapid deployment of high quality, financially viable heating and cooling networks.
It achieves this by applying technical and commercial expertise, derived from delivering many successful schemes, to support ambitious new developments.
Norway
| EHP - Active National Association | DHC+ | Association
Norsk Fjernvarme is an interest organisation for the Norwegian district heating industry. The association’s main goal is to promote the development of district heating and hydronic heating and cooling, based primarily on renewable or recycled energy. It currently represents 47 companies in production and distribution of district heating, and nearly 80 associate members with interests in the industry (suppliers, consultants, universities and colleges, governments and other organisations).
Optit, founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the Alma Mater Università di Bologna, develops and supplies advanced Decision Support Systems based on Mathematical modelling, Operations Research and Data Science. Leveraging on a mix of interdisciplinary competences (mathematics and statistics, machine learning, business consulting, ICT and SW application development), we support business and industrial customers in making the most of their data in order to optimise design and planning from strategic (long term investment planning) down to day-to-day operations, with the best mix of descriptive analytics, simulation, forecasting and optimisation tools and services.
More than 350 people at the Energy Department of Politecnico di Milano deal with the energy world in its complexity and in its continuous evolution. Subjects of study are the disciplines and technologies related to production, conversion, transport and final uses of energy, considering their social and environmental complex implications.
Concearning DH&C, our researches aim to improve efficiency, reduce fossil fuel consumption and pollutant emissions of existing and new DHC systems.
We support and cooperate with DHC suppliers and municipalities during the planning and operational phase and we participate in national and international research projects.
The Energy Department at Politecnico di Torino is the leading structure in the field of energy and sustainable development. The main goal is to improve existing technologies in the energy sector, to promote innovation and to contribute to the sustainable use of different energy sources, also in the DHC field.
Profu is an independent research and consultant company in the areas of energy, environment and waste management. Profu has performed a large number of international projects on commission of e.g. Nordic Council of Ministers, International Energy Agency and the European Union. It’s employees carry out extensive projects with a large number of stakeholders as well as small projects with a short duration, they have a solid knowledge of project leadership and project development.