Optimizing District Heating & Cooling with Data-Driven Insights
About
TEF DHN focuses on improving district heating and cooling networks (DHCN) so as to enhance resource efficiency. It leverages real-time data for integrating energy forecasting models, algorithms and Digital Twins. Its goals cover minimising energy consumption in power plants and substations, as well as providing dynamic energy savings assessments. The satellite is based in Spain and managed by VEOLIA.
Testing Infrastructure
Both the physical and virtual infrastructure is provided by VEOLIA and is based on the Torrelago District in Spain.
Physical
VEOLIA manages several DHCN in Spain, and worldwide, through HUBGRADE, an owned hyper visualisation tool.
Spain
- A district heating network that includes:
- 31 buildings
- 19 substations
- 1 natural gas-based boiler room
- 1 biomass-based boiler room
Virtual
The HUBGRADE hypervisor system for collecting, storing and analyzing DHN data.
Available Data
The data provided by the DHN and managed by HUBGRADE includes real-time and historical data.
- More than 700 variables with 15’ read frequency and historical data since 2017