Techno-economic evaluation of electricity price-driven heat production of a river water heat pump in a German district heating system

With this volume 40 the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management can celebrate its 10 years anniversary. In this editorial we take a closer look at the journals impact over its first 10 years of existence and highlight the articles that have made the largest impacts in the scientific community from a citation perspective. The topic of the journal – sustainable energy planning and management – has not decreased in importance over the first ten years of the journal’s existence – and fortunately the results published in the journal has garnered interest and the impact of the journal has significantly increased. In terms of citation, the journals 275 published articles, has received 1484 citations as per March 2024 and nine articles have 40 or more citations in Scopus. CiteScore ranks the journal in the top 10% out of 700+ journals within the topic of Geography, Planning and Development.

Section: Smart Energy Systems Conference (Ses 2023)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Ten years of sustainable energy planning and management

Østergaard,

Lund,

Johannsen

et al. 2024

“…Volkova has previously presented work on mobile apps for district heating consumers in this journal [42] as well as research focusing more concretely on district heating case studies in Estonia [43,44]. The model energyPRO [45] has previously been applied by Trømborg to model electricity use in district heating plants [46], by Sneum to investigate flexible district heating [47], by Widzinski to analyse alternative heat production technologies for district heating system in Poland [48] and by Trabert [49] to analyse a river water-based heat pump for district heating in Germany. Beyond the present journal, it has been applied to develop low-carbon pathways for various case studies including Helsingør [50], Helsinki [51], Pécs [52], Matosinhos [53], and Brasov [54].…”

Section: Special Issue For 9 Th Smart Energy Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…One of the main conclusions is an underlining of the benefits of the waste heat -district heating combination [89]. Röder [90] , Trabert [49], Best [91], and Kersten [92] previously addressed different aspects of distruct heating integration and explansion in Germany. Lund [93] compared different low-temperature district heating concepts from a systems perspective.…”

Section: Special Issues For 17 Th Sdewesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Energy Planning and Management Vol 38

Østergaard

Johannsen

Duić

et al. 2023

This 38th volume of the International Journal of Sustainable Energy Planning and Management presents some of the newest work within in the energy planning, energy systems analyses and district heating area. Articles focus on multi objective optimisarion for a community in the Alps, carbon neutrality in Estonia, the prospects of heat pumps combined with thermal energy storage in maximising self-consumpotion from a photovoltaic field and methods for assessing district heating options. Other work focus on gamification tools for assessing energy efficiency measures, country analyses of economic and environmental indicators, the adaption of alternative fuel vehicles, and the use of waste heat sources for district heating.

“…It should be mentioned that many of the mapped results of the above-mentioned projects are based on a top-down approach and several assumptions and general basic calculations in order to achieve approximate values for each country and to use the same approach for each country. Furthermore, a variety of RES were identified and mapped, while other sources are still missing that can become particularly relevant for large-scale heat pumps (HPs) and chillers, such as rivers and lakes [16,17]. Large-scale HPs and chillers are seen as a very efficient technology to utilize RES, to integrate the power and thermal energy sector and thereby help balancing the power generation from fluctuating RES.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

GIS-based approach to identifying potential heat sources for heat pumps and chillers providing district heating and cooling

Pieper

Lepiksaar²,

Volkova³

2022

Geographic information system (GIS) software has been essential for visualising and determining heating and cooling requirements, sources of industrial excess heat, natural bodies of water, and municipalities. Policymakers highly encourage the use of GIS software at all administrative levels. It is expected that the heating and cooling demand will continue to increase. For a reliable heat and cooling supply, we must identify heat sources that can be used to provide heat or for removing surplus heat. We propose a method for identifying possible heat sources for large heat pumps and chillers that combines geospatial data from administrative units, industrial facilities, and natural bodies of water. Temperatures, capacities, heat source availability, as well as their proximity to areas with high demand density for heating and cooling were considered. This method was used for Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. Excess heat from heat generation plants and industries, sewage water treatment plants, and natural heat sources such as rivers, lakes and seawater were included. The study’s findings provide an overview of possible industrial and natural heat sources, as well as their characteristics. The potential of the heat sources was analysed, quantified, and then compared to the areas of heating and cooling demand.