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Studio Marco Vermeulen www.marcovermeulen.nl

Dutch Smart Thermal Grid

By 14-09-2016

Studio Marco Vermeulen presents the Dutch Smart Thermal Grid. Nearly half of the Dutch energy demand consists of the heating of homes, businesses, industry and horticulture. Currently, this heat is almost entirely produced by burning natural gas. Reduction of the use of natural gas is therefore an urgent aspect of the policy goal towards a sustainable energy supply. But how?

There is a sustainable and cost efficient heat source that can be utilized using the existing infrastructure, namely geothermal energy. With geothermal power plants, hot water between 80 and 120 degrees Celsius is pumped up from a depth of 2 to 4 kilometers. The visible spatial impact is minimal. With the current information on the subsoil and the first deep drillings realized, geothermal energy seems to be able to fulfill in the heat demand of a large part of the Netherlands.

In the coming years there will be regions in the Netherlands where demand and supply of waste heat and geothermal energy are close together. Here the first ‘regional smart thermal grids’ will arise. In the coming decades, waste heat and geothermal energy will be transport along a larger distance through well-insulated piping so that other regions will be connected on the grid. Slowly but surely a nationwide, robust heat network will emerge with a large variety of heat supply and demand: the Dutch Smart Thermal Grid.

Dutch Design Awards finalist Design research, 2016

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