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Historic city centres and energy transition: Where heat pumps fail, and solar PV cannot be used, the Energy Transition for build environment has serious challenges to overcome. This is especially the case in Europe's historic city centres, which are essential for our European culture, identity and economy. Regulations prescribe that historic buildings must be preserved. Modern energy technologies (wall insulation, solar panels, double glazing or floor heating) are not desirable, not allowed or have severe restrictions. Heat pumps cannot be used because low-temperature floor heating will affect building structures. EnerTwin solution: The EnerTwin is the perfect solution to improve the energy efficiency and CO2 emission reduction of a building. EnerTwin is a small-scale heat and power plant combined in one sustainable device. Its core is a micro turbine that drives a generator. Micro turbines have great advantages in terms of reliability and lifetime, and bring low maintenance, high-efficiency and significant CO2 emission reduction. EnerTwin is also suitable for clean fuels such as green gas, biomethane and gas mixtures with up to 23% hydrogen, but it can also run on natural gas. By using renewable fuels, 100% green electricity is produced. Moreover, this leads to additional CO2 emission reductions. Plug and play installation (no renovation required) makes EnerTwin the perfect solution for rapid energy transition of historic buildings. Hydrogen: The EnerTwin is currently CE certified for fuels with up to 23% Hydrogen (mix).
It will be adapted to 100% Hydrogen in 2 steps (50%, 100%), while backwards integration is still possible in case a hydrogen infrastructure is not available yet. A 50% Hydrogen solution is expected to be commercially available by the end of 2022.
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