Service: Finding Waste Heat Spots

Responsible organisation: Austrian Federal Ministry for Climate Action, Environment, Energy, Mobility, Innovation, and Technology (Central-Government)

The Austrian government is backing a project in the cities of Vienna and Graz that would let citizens submit data about industrial waste heat spots for district heating, receiving tokens as reward. The project, called HotCity’s, is a proof-of-concept that involves creating a gamification system to crowdsource hotspots around the city and channel them to provide public heating. Vienna hosts one of Europe’s largest district heating networks, which provides hot water through centralized heating lines in the city. One of the benefits of such a system is the ability to use waste heat from industrial processes to provide consumers with energy. This has an obvious impact on energy efficiency and CO2 emissions.

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Source Open Innovation Regione Lombardia
Web site https://cointelegraph.com/news/austrian-government-backed-project-will-use-blockchain-to-find-waste-heat-spots
Start/end date 2020 -
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