HeatCOOP
Residents-Owned Heat Cooperatives to Push Urban Decarbonisation
- Category
- Project
- Call
- DUT Call 2022
- Duration
- –
- Project coordinator
- realitylab GmbH
Building owners are challenged by the high investment costs required to reduce dependency on fossil fuels for heating. The HeatCOOPs project aims to research and develop a prototype for an innovative organisational model to facilitate the decarbonisation of heat supply in urban neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on heat cooperatives. A key aspect of the project is how it brings together building owners and urban residents to form an energy co[1]operative (“Heat Transition Community”) to reduce CO2 emissions while saving on energy costs. Lessons learned will be shared after testing and optimising the prototype in three living labs in Austria, the Czech Republic and Slovenia.
Austria
Czech Republic
Slovenia
Czech Technical University In Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, E7 Energie Markt, Analyse Gmbh, Institut Jozef Stefan, Reenag Holding Gmbh, Seven, The Energy Efficiency Center Z.U.
City of Vienna, Department For Energy Planning, Gemeinnützige Familienhäuser - Bau - Und Wohnungsgenossenschaft Registrierte Genossenschaft M.B.H., Municipality of Ivančna Gorica, Municipality of Selnica Ob Dravi, Verein Zur Förderung Der Klimaneutralität Im Kahlenbergerdorf [Klimadörfl]