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*Handelsblatt honors E.ON Innovation ectogrid as Top 3
Technology*
· Heat and cold - climate-friendly and affordable for
everyone
· Key to a Energy Transition in Cities
At the Handelsblatt Energy Awards ceremony, the jury honored the ectogrid
cooling and heating network for supplying cities and districts as one of the
leading new energy technologies. This confirms E.ON's position as an
innovation leader in the energy industry. In the Smart Infrastructure
category, ectogrid ranked among the top 3.
The supply network works like a thermal battery into which residents and
businesses feed or extract heat and cold. ectogrid enables climate-friendly
heating and cooling in the city at affordable prices.
ectogrid primarily uses renewable and ambient energy as well as waste heat
and cooling. Solar thermal and geothermal energy, mine and waste water and
waste heat from a bakery or computer center can be tapped energy sources.
Heat pumps installed in buildings and apartments can be switched on as
required.
Heating and cooling are supplied from a common network, which has low to
practically no distribution losses due to low temperatures. The decisive
factor for economic efficiency is that the operating temperature of the grid
varies between 6 and 30 degrees Celsius - depending on the behavior and
needs of the consumers and energy producers. The cold supply in particular
is thus transformed from a luxury good to an affordable service.
In addition, ectogrid is also based on a highly cooperative approach.
Community and urban society actors are already involved in the development
and utilization of the energy system. Each prosumer has the possibility to
contribute his own energy.
"With ectogrid, we are making significant progress in supplying heating and
cooling to cities. The consistent utilization of waste and excess heating
and cooling and the radical avoidance of losses make this possible. With
ectogrid we use energy more than once and thereby ensure that the energy
costs of our customers will remain affordable in the future. We're
determined to market this climate-friendly technology internationally and
make a contribution to reducing CO2 emissions in our cities across Europe,"
says Stefan Håkansson, responsible for City Energy Solutions at E.ON.
Digital intelligence plays a decisive role. ectogrid is controlled by the
cloud-based software ectocloud. Based on self-learning algorithms and
depending on market, environmental and demand data, the system is constantly
optimized. E.ON has filed 32 patents for the technology. It was developed in
Sweden and is used there in various locations, even on a large scale in the
Medicon Village hospital complex in Lund. There, ectogrid will reduce its
own generation by almost 80 percent.
E.ON is currently introducing ectogrid to the German and British heating
markets and cooperates closely with RWTH Aachen University. A joint
feasibility study is currently being funded by the German Federal Ministry
of Economics and Technology.
Contact E.ON: Markus Nitschke | 0049 160 898 5555 0
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information currently available to E.ON. Various known and unknown risks,
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the actual future results, financial situation, development or performance
of the company and the estimates given here. E.ON SE does not intend, and
does not assume any liability whatsoever, to update these forward-looking
statements or to align them to future events or developments.
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