Smart Geotherm

Smart Geotherm aims at using geothermal, thermal mass and other techniques to create nearly zero-energy buildings. We do this with all of the project partners by insulating the buildings in such a way that the net heat requirement can be largely completed by renewable energy. Aside from that we also use intelligent and integrated techniques, such as:

• Short or long term thermal energy storage systems in the structural mass (thermal mass) or in the soil (cold-heat storage,  Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES) system, energy piles), whether or not combined with more flexible storage systems (Phase Changing Materials,…)
• Building and disseminating knowledge, applications and new developments in the field of ground coupled heat pumps
• Developing smart control systems
• A maximum feeding of the process by cheap or renewable energy

Smart Geotherm consisted of four modules:

1. The demand for thermal energy
2. The offer of thermal energy
3. The buffering or storage of thermal energy
4. The matching of demand, offer and buffering by an intelligent control algorithm