City of Bruges has the ambition to be climate neutral for its entire territory by 2050. For Bruges' historic city center, this is a very challenging task: the many historic and protected buildings are not easy to insulate, so typical renewable heating technologies such as heat pumps are not suitable everywhere
Daarom bestudeert Ingenium nu in opdracht van de stad of een warmtenet in de binnenstad een duurzame en betaalbare oplossing kan bieden. Brugge heeft al heel wat ervaring met warmtenetten: sinds 1985 levert de afvalverbrandingsoven van intercommunale IVBO warmte aan onder andere het ziekenhuis AZ Sint-Jan en de gevangenis. De specifieke context van de Brugse binnenstad, met grote historische gebouwcomplexen (musea, hotels, scholen,…) en een aantal potentiële restwarmtebronnen in de omgeving (onder andere de afvalverbrandingsoven van IVBO, brouwerij de Halve Maan) maken dat de binnenstad, ondanks de smalle straatjes, mogelijk geschikt is voor een warmtenet.
During the assignment, Ingenium evaluates which available waste heat sources qualify to supply heat to a heat network. We study four local heat network clusters ('heat islands'): the 'city republic' around library de Biekorf, the central zone around Markt and Burg, the museum district around the Gruuthuse and Groeninge museums and finally around Oud St-Jan. For each of these clusters, we look at how a heat network can be constructed in the city, which buildings can be connected, what impact this will have on CO2 emissions and the costs involved. In the next step, we look at how these local clusters can be connected in phases to each other and to the waste heat sources to form a single district heat grid. Here, too, we are looking at how this can be constructed, what impact it has on CO2 emissions and what costs are involved.
Finally, Ingenium is also taking a long-term look at how this sustainable district heat grid could further develop in the future to other city neighborhoods, such as, for example, the area around the Beurs and the station area.
