Symposium on municipal heat planning

April, 17 & 18 | Berlin

Andreas Christidis, researcher in the Research Unit Mobility with Renewable Energies at RLI, will take part in a panel discussion at the symposium on municipal heat planning. The topic will be energy system modeling.

Other RLI employees will also be holding two workshops: The first workshop is entitled “Future data platform for municipal heat planning” and will be led by Jonas Huber. The Open Energy Platform will be presented, which serves as a framework with which data from the energy sector can be published, documented and found according to good practice. In the workshop, stakeholders can collect their requirements for data platforms for municipal heat planning in group discussions. The aim is to collect requirements for the design of future solutions that can be used to further develop the Open Energy Platform.

The second workshop by Andreas Christidis, Sabine Haas, Kilian Helfenbein, Caroline Möller and Christoph Muschner explores the question of whether existing tools already meet the requirements of municipal heat planning. After all, the law on heat planning and decarbonization of heating networks, which came into force on 1 January 2024, makes municipal heat planning mandatory for all municipalities. And this involves cooperation between municipalities, research institutes, companies and other stakeholders. The aim of the workshop is to bring together the specific tasks of municipal heat planning with the tools available to deal with them.

The symposium is an event of the Energy System Analysis Research Network in cooperation with the Energy Transition Building Research Network and will take place from April 17 to 18 at the Berlin Environmental Forum.

Further information can be found here.