SAPHEA - Developing a single access point for the market uptake of geothermal energy use in multivalent heating and cooling networks across Europe

建筑和工业的供暖和制冷占欧盟能源消耗的一半，使其成为仅次于交通和电力的最大能源终端使用部门。大约75%的供暖和制冷仍然来自化石燃料，而只有22%来自可再生能源。由可再生能源提供的区域供热和供冷网络可以解决所有这些问题，为单个化石燃料供热系统提供清洁，节能和成本效益的替代方案。地热能通过提供零排放稳定的基本负荷供应和地下储热，在供暖和制冷网络中发挥着至关重要的作用。尽管如此，地热能供暖和制冷网络（“geoHC网络”）在欧洲供暖和制冷行业中只占约1%的小众市场，这主要是非技术市场壁垒的结果。SAPHEA通过创建一个耐用的数字市场吸收中心，解决了地热能提供的多价供热和制冷网络的吸收问题。该中心包含工具箱和指导方针，以支持利益相关者进行早期投资决策和战略规划活动，并解决欧洲各地地区或市政当局的市场行为者。因此，SAPHEA将结合、调整和扩展现有工具（例如Hotmaps或EnerMaps），考虑与geoHC网络相关的一系列市场准备和新兴技术概念。以地方当局、社区服务和能源供应商为代表的中心用户将通过有针对性的培训获得权力，在考虑到各自区域的具体地质和社会经济边界条件的情况下起草发展设想和路线图。专门的交流活动将导致围绕公共和私人市场参与者以及SAPHEA生命周期之外的研究人员的市场摄取中心建立一个活跃的网络。

Heating and cooling in buildings and industry accounts for half of the EU’s energy consumption, making it the biggest energy end-use sector ahead of both, transport and electricity. Approximately 75% of heating and cooling is still generated from fossil fuels while only 22% is generated from renewable energy. District heating and cooling networks supplied by renewable energy sources can be a solution to all these issues, offering a clean, energy-efficient, and cost-effective alternative to individual fossil-fuel heating systems. Geothermal energy has the potential to play a vital role inside heating and cooling networks by offering zero emission stable base load supply and heat storage in the subsurface. Still, geothermal energy supplied heating and cooling networks (‘geoHC networks’) cover a small niche of around 1% inside the European heating and cooling sector, which is a result of primarily non-technological market barriers. SAPHEA addresses the uptake of multivalent heating and cooling networks supplied by geothermal energy by creating a durable digital market uptake hub. The hub contains toolboxes and guidelines to support stakeholders in early stage investment decisions and strategy planning activities and addresses market actors in districts or municipalities all across Europe. SAPHEA will therefore combine, adapt and expand existing tools (e.g., Hotmaps or EnerMaps) considering a set of market ready and emerging technological concepts linked to geoHC networks. The users of the hub, represented by local authorities, community services and energy suppliers will be empowered by targeted trainings to draft development scenarios and roadmaps taking into consideration the specific geological and socio-economic boundary conditions in their respective region. Dedicated communication activities will lead to the establishment to a lively network around the market uptake hub of public and private market actors as well as researchers beyond the lifetime of SAPHEA.