Training ENTRAIN's trainers

Economic calculations, financing and funding for renewable district heating have been the topics of the second training inside the ENTRAIN partnership on June 18th!
Thanks a lot to our Austrian and German partners for this precious knowledge transfer and to external guests who joined our online meeting.

Our second training session inside the partnership has been recorded: WATCH THE REGISTRATION HERE

PART 1 - Profitability calculation and heat cost comparison for consumers

PART 2 - Economic feasibility of bioenergy villages and solar-thermal plants + Funding for renewable DH

PART 3 - Financing schemes (with a focus on the Financing and Operation Model: renewable heat contracting)

Agenda:

08:30 – 09:00 | Registration, coffee, and arrival in the virtual area of GoToMeeting
09:00 – 09:15 | Introduction + technical details (AEE INTEC)
- presentation of the agenda and the aims of the day

09:15 – 10:00 | Profitability calculation of dh-plant/network (AEE INTEC)
- Presentation of the tool profitability calculation
- Calculation of one example

10:00 – 10:30 | Heat Cost Comparison for Consumers (AEE INTEC + EASt)
- Typical costs and how to compare them

10:30 – 10:40 | coffee break

10:40 – 11:30 | Economic feasibility of bioenergy villages (RVNA) and solar thermal plants (Solites)

11:30 – 12:00 | Fundings (EASt)
- Funding for DH in AT + Overview Fundings for DH in target regions (interactive: input from partners: every target region please present shortly (3 min) the funding situation for DHS in their countries)

12:00 – 12:10 | coffee break

12:10 – 12:45 | Overview of different financing schemes with the focus on the Financing and Operation Model: Renewable Heat Contracting (Siegfried Aigner, Aigner Energie Contracting GmbH)
- Concept and project examples

12:45 – 13:00 | Summary, feedback and discussion