Building cooperative receives 40,000 francs from the climate fund Stadtwerk Winterthur
The building cooperative more than living receives 40,000 francs from the climate fund Stadtwerk Winterthur for the test operation of an intelligent heating controller. This is intended to optimize the energy consumption in two buildings on the site of the former planing mill in a climate-friendly manner.
The municipal energy supplier Stadtwerk Winterthur has given the building cooperative 40,000 francs more than housing from its climate fund. It wants to finance the pilot operation of a self-learning heating controller in two houses on the 2000-watt Hobelwerk area in Oberwinterthur, according to a media release .
The heating controller was developed by the Federal Materials Testing and Research Institute ( Empa ) in Dübendorf. It is supposed to optimize the heating systems in a climate-friendly way, "by including solar power production on the roof, the interaction between main heating (heat pump) and peak load (pellet boiler) as well as the load on the power grid," the media release said. This offers knowledge for the climate-friendly use of energy with the lowest possible load on the power grid in buildings.