Hence, at the core of THERMOSS is an industry-focused, innovation-intensive approach to ease and foster the introduction of cutting-edge heating and cooling technologies for building energy retrofitting at European level, targeting residential buildings and buildings connected to heating and cooling networks.
The THERMOSS Project is developing, testing and deploying technology packages that optimise the use of fossil fuel and / or substitute fossil fuels with various kinds of renewable energy. THERMOSS technologies have been picked out from the catalogues of prominent European industrial players, Bosch, Veolia and Schneider Electric taking into account business profitability, energy efficiency and potential for large-scale deployment. The technologies will be tuned, combined and sized as part of the project thanks to dedicated academic and industrial input, tools development, to optimize their impact on energy efficiency in buildings.
THERMOSS advocates a geo-clustered approach to the definition of technology intervention packages, in order to increase the impact of the solutions with respect to specific climatic conditions and – when applicable – to specific national policies (e.g. fiscal incentives) and regulations. The THERMOSS packages and the platform will be thoroughly demonstrated in seven experimental and demonstration sites, covering all the built environment scales: residential buildings, district heating and cooling networks, in different climatic zones.
