Our energy center already supplies electricity for over 100 households
Exceeds the 2030 CO2 climate protection target for heat by 40%
This is how the energy center works in detail
Combined heat and power plant (CHP) In the energy center, two CHP generate electricity and heat.
The CHP units generate electricity for the installation itself and can additionally supply over 100 households with it.
The heat from the CHP units heats up the water from the returned flow of the heating network. The heated water is fed back into the heating network or into the buffer storage tanks as required.
Air is drawn in from the outside to cool the CHP units. In conventional installations, the resulting warm air would would remain unused.
Buffer storage room and heat pump
The air heated by the CHP units (see 1.3) is fed into the buffer storage room and collected there.
First innovation: The heat pump extracts all remaining energy from the warm air in the buffer storage room and feeds it into the heating network. Through this measure, the heat demand of 5 households is obtained just from the exhaust air of the cogeneration units.
Second innovation: The air cooled by the heat pump is used to cool the installation in the summer months.
Buffer storage The buffer storage tanks are a kind of battery for storing heat. They store the heat that is currently not required and release it back into the heating network when more heat is needed.
Condensing boilers This unit is only switched on if more heat is needed on particularly cold days than the base load generators and buffer storage tanks can supply.
Heat network The heating network runs underground and supplies every connected building in the Weingartenfeld with heat and hot water.
