InnoNEX

A consortium of small and medium-sized companies and two research institutions develop a new concept for the supply and operation of heating networks. This concept pursues the following objectives: exploitation of previously unused exergy, use of heat pumps in heating networks, low-loss heating networks with decentralized, user-optimized heat pumps at the consumer, improved partial load behavior of the heating network through a large number of generators, thermal and electrical energy storage for load profile compensation and peak load damping, recovery of waste heat from the users in summer in seasonal storage, regenerative supply of heat pumps and use of peak shaving resources as well as monitoring and management software for year-round load optimization and proactive network operation.

As part of the project, IKEM is responsible for the legal analysis and examines the legal framework conditions of the heat value chain, starting with the input materials for heat generation, through the heat infrastructure to the value-creating factors of the heat product.