District Heating project development, a fragile business

District Heating project development, a fragile business: Towards new collaboration and business models

Schokker, M.

Van Bueren, E.M. (mentor)
Nase, I. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Management in the Built Environment

2016-05-28

An exploratory research into the role of business models and collaboration mechanisms in district heating project development. District heating is one of the main solutions of decarbonising the built environment, however it is only thinly researched and implemented. A generic collaboration model of district heating project development in the Netherlands is developed, in which four collaboration mechanisms are identified that create four essential system values. It is discovered that the status quo of the business and collaboration models is dependant of many factors that are highly rare or difficult to establish. It is therefore inappropriate for up-scaling district heating project development. One of the main proposed solutions is nationalising the heat transport, as with gas and electricity infrastructure.

urban development
urban energy
district heating
sustainable energy
business model
collaboration
sustainability

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2016 Schokker, M.