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The „EnEff:Wärme – MeFlexWärme“ project is worked on by the university departments of electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and mathematics as well as the companies Entega AG and Siemens AG. The subject of the project is the district heating network system Darmstadt. It shall be analysed how the network transparency can be improved by using only a limited amount of measuring points. For a prospective integration of consumers and producers with increasing flexibility a control system and a trading platform shall be developed. Within the scope of the overall project the key aspects for the research at TTD are simulations of the current network as well as for a future-oriented network with an increasing electrification of heat production. As part of the future scenario an operation strategy shall be elaborated which takes the fluctuating production of renewable electric energy into account by considering heat storages. While the progression of flexibility of electric grids is already promoted and part of research since a few years (keyword: ‚smart grids‘), the sector of heating networks shows a high need to catch up. Therefore within the project ‚EnEff:Wärme – MeFlexWärme‘ new concepts and methods for the three research fields ‚network transparency‘, ‚flexibility control system‘ and ‚mathematical optimisation‘ are developed and tested referring to heating networks.

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