The Swiss town of Arbon commissioned us to assess the technical and economic feasibility of using Lake Constance as a source of renewable energy for its district heating system. This involved interviewing potential key customers and assessing whether sources of usable waste heat or existing local heating networks could be integrated into the system. Our work contributes to a rapid, economically viable expansion of Abron’s district heating system.

Our services

• Developing a heat generation concept for the heating network
• Restricting the perimeter of the heating network and evaluating heat distribution
• Proposing a network development plan
• Dimensioning the network and clarifying technical feasibility
• Finding locations for the pumping station and peak load centers
• Estimating investment and operating costs; calculating the economic viability of the network
• Calculating possible reduction in carbon emissions
• Developing possible operator models