Mürzzuschlag is a town of 8,500 inhabitants in a mountain region between Vienna and Graz. It’s district heating system used to be fired by natural gas and biomass boilers. As both are scarce ressources, the integration of solar thermal was very much appreciated.
The installed heat storage, with a capacity of 165 m³, results in an overall efficiency increase via energy management.
Energetika Vransko, the local utility, wanted to increase their green energy supply to the district heating system. The signs were good – especially lucrative funding instruments removed all doubts in the investment of this first of its kind solar district heating system.
The village of Liggeringen is in the hills in the vincinity of Radolfzell at Lake Constance in Southern Germany, close to the Swiss border. There are mainly single family houses, but still it was viable to build a new district heating grid. As the utility
In order to get one step closer to becoming the solar capital of Europe, the City of Graz and the urban energy utility company Energy Graz decided to work with SOLID to develop this flagship project on the grounds of the water works Andritz, the
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