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COMMUNICATION
InDeal project
Innovative technology for district heating and cooling
By Dr Serafeim Moustakidis and Prof Nicos Karcanias
Challenged by climate change and
coupled with the need to secure
sustainable economic growth and
social cohesion, Europe must achieve
a genuine energy revolution to reverse
present-day unsustainable trends
and live up to the ambitious policy
expectations. A rational, consistent
and far-sighted approach to heating
and cooling is key for ensuring such
transformation. Toward this direction,
district heating and cooling systems
need to be more efficient, intelligent
and cheaper.
The InDeal project (Innovative network monitoring and control, • developing energy harvesting
technology for district heating and energy prediction) that relate to a solutions to enable future
cooling) is a project funded by the cluster of industries in many sectors deployment of autonomous
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (district heating and cooling, sensors and
(topic: H2020-EE-2015-2-RIA) of software, energy efficiency, intelligent
the European Union under grant meters, etc.). • minimizing heat losses via
agreement No. 696174. The InDeal novel pipe design solutions and
project team is comprised by leading InDeal project will offer an innovative innovative insulation materials
organizations in their respective platform that will impose a fairly
fields from across the European distribution of heating and cooling The target of InDeal is to turn
Union. The project is coordinated among the network’s substations by: the current district heating and
by City University of London and cooling networks into a new next-
the consortium consists of 11 • real–time energy consumption level automated networks that will
organizations from eight EU member data gathering via artificial guarantee increase of the overall
states: NAITEC (Spain), Centre for intelligent meters energy efficiency accomplishing a
Research and Technology Hellas, fairly distribution of heating and
the French Alternative Energies and • identifying and evaluating the cooling energy demands. InDeal
Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), network’s need and demand for will make a significant step forward
IZNAB Sp. z o.o. (Poland), Center for heating and cooling depending contributing to wider use of intelligent
Technology Research and Innovation to energy efficiency, energy district heating and cooling systems
(Cyprus), Net Technologies Finland, consumption and type of building and smart integration of renewables,
PROMAR Ltd. (Poland), Energetika waste and storage. l
Projekt d.o.o. (Slovenia), Syndicat • predicting the short-term weather
national du chauffage urbain et de conditions and forthcoming need Contact information
la climatisation urbaine (France) and for heating and cooling
SERM Société d'Équipement de la Professor Nicos Karcanias
Region Montpelliéraine (France). • monitoring the level of energy Professor Emeritus in Systems
stored in network’s storage and Control Engineering
The project brings together a number stations and substations City University, Northampton
of organisations from varying areas Square, London, EC1V 0HB,
such as control and machine learning • 24/7 monitoring and control of the United Kingdom
experts, software developers, district heating and cooling system Email: N.Karcanias@city.ac.uk
experts in system integration and by a central control platform
district heating and cooling services
providers, to solve a number of
technological challenges (i.e.
distribution of heating and cooling,
This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme
