New & helpful: Quick and sustainable BEW transformation plan with Kelvin Green Tools
Tataaa! After almost a year of developing, trying out and testing in practical projects, the time has finally come: Kelvin Green proudly presents its first two digital tools that heat suppliers and heat planners can use to develop their individual transformation (road) plans and feasibility studies faster, more efficiently and more sustainably! Just at the right time – because the legislator has decided on January 1, 2024 that a transformation plan will become a mandatory task for every heating network over 1 km and that BEW funding will probably start again very soon. May we introduce? …
The Kelvin Green HeatMap – easily identify heating network areas, define possible route options and assign potential areas to individual buildings
Basically, it’s quite simple: the starting point for any heating strategy and transformation and feasibility planning is the identification of potential areas and possible routes for new heating networks or network expansions. Ideally, the two should be linked together – i.e. the existing and new route sections and the adjacent buildings with their respective heating requirements. Only on this basis can individual variants, heat quantity ramp-ups and sales potentials be analyzed and the optimum heating network plan developed. And this is exactly what the Kelvin Green HeatMap makes possible – tailored to the needs of heat suppliers without any unnecessary frills. Simply upload building data from the supply area (either your own or statistical data purchased from Kelvin Green’s data partner) and get started. The advantages are obvious: significant time savings, productive collaboration in interdisciplinary teams or with the planning service provider, quick identification of lucrative routes. And, of course, probably the most important database for developing a transformation plan or a feasibility study with the…
Kelvin Green HeatPlan – finding the best way to a green heating network in a structured and efficient way.
Anyone starting to draw up a transformation plan or a feasibility study will quickly be overwhelmed by the required and sometimes necessary complexity. And once an initial concept has been drawn up, new developments have already emerged with regard to possible routes, heat generation options or funding conditions – so it’s all over again! In addition, there is an almost infinite number of possible variants and it takes a great deal of effort to find the optimum one for each individual case, because everything is connected to everything else. The Kelvin Green HeatPlan takes you by the hand, guides you through all aspects of heat network planning in a structured way and saves you up to 50% of the time needed to develop a BEW-compliant transformation plan (or feasibility study). The good thing is that all variables, from individual building heat requirements and the route concept to the appropriate heat generation concept, are dynamically linked and result in a comprehensive business case analysis. In addition, numerous reference values are stored, e.g. for energy price developments or network construction costs, which can be used for the rough concept and quick results and can be easily adapted later if necessary. Based on building-specific heat potential areas and assigned possible route sections (both easy to design in the Kelvin Green HeatMap and insert via Excel interface, see above) as well as some basic conceptual assumptions, simple heat load profiles up to 2045 can then be carried out for each generator or a rough calculation of the necessary network dimensioning in no time at all. And best of all: with just a few clicks, countless different assumptions and variants can be run through and checked for their economic viability.