A District Heating software solution to track 100 % of energy losses in thermal grids.

Bringing humans
the possibility to access
a sustainable thermal comfort

DistrictLab-H is a unique Computer-Aided Engineering solution to optimize the design and operation of District thermal grids.

our solution

Numerically Efficient
and Accurate

  • Represents the production, distribution and consumption domains within a single integrated tool based on a unique thermal-hydraulic kernel.
  • Analyses complex systems on a simple laptop within seconds.
  • Automates the building and maintenance of models from a Geographical Information System database.

versatile
and scalable

  • Maintains performance indicators from mega- to giga-Watt systems.
  • Covers all main kinds of network architectures (e.g. two-tube, three-tube, open network), topologies (tree-shaped, meshed layout) and technology generation in the district heating and cooling fields.

Fast to set-up
and Productive

  • Minimizes set-up effort relying on DistrictLab’s model builder approach.
  • Reports errors in their relevant context for immediate review and correction.
  • Automates the (re)sizing of network portions in static and/or dynamic analysis.
  • Easily tests and validates control strategies allowing continuous improvement of design and operation.

Advantages With DistrictLab-H

Access to highler levels of efficienty and confidence
in the design of new thermal systems

Simply assess, challenge and improve existing
network control strategies

Reconciliate energy efficiency and heat
delivery security for your customers

Reduce network temperature, save energy and money

User testimonials

« The ADP Group (Aéroport de Paris) develops and operates three airport platforms in the Paris region (Charles De Gaulle, Orly, and Le Bourget), each with its own energy systems. Across these different sites, the ADP Group operates heating and cooling networks that supply the various airport infrastructures. The total energy distributed amounts to more than 300 GWh across the three platforms.
As part of our internal engineering activities and expertise in monitoring the energy performance of our facilities, we were looking for a comprehensive and easy-to-use thermal-hydraulic simulation software solution that could model both chilled water networks and heating networks. The software solution also needed to be capable of handling the complexity inherent in our networks, whose production mix combines geothermal, biomass, gas, and other energy sources, and ideally could eventually migrate to a ‘digital twin’ as an operational optimization tool.
After a comparative analysis and testing of various solutions available on the market, we chose the DistrictLab-H SimulationStudio software. »
Mr Cédric DEHEZ

Head of Environment & Fluids at ADP

« The VITEOS SA Group develops and operates several district heating networks in the canton of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The development challenges are significant, with an overall growth in energy sales of nearly 10% per year and network extensions ranging from 10 to 15 km per year. Beyond these development challenges, VITEOS SA aims to increase the energy efficiency of its networks by focusing on the control and regulation of production sites. In this context, we evaluated various software solutions for design assistance and operational optimization and chose the DistrictLab-H Simulation Studio software. »

Mr. Nicolas Zwahlen, Mr. Alexandre Brülhart

Heads of Thermal Networks Service at VITEOS SA

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About us

Roland
Bavière

CEO and co-founder

Fundamentally, I believe that our developed societies face huge ecological, energy and sustainability challenges and that these call for a compelling need for change. I want to be an actor of this change by creating a structure that will allow itself and its members the freedom to dare! I’ll drive DistrictLab based on my experience gained through a decade of work spend solving the problem of optimal design and operation of District Thermal systems.

Abdelhamid
LARBI

CSO and co-founder

I am fully committed to prove that it is possible to build a virtuous economy. After 14 years working for the world leader in energy training simulation and 12 years as CEO and founder of L3S that have provided several software solutions for utilities, I am glad to bring together with Roland the best talented people for the common good in the energy sector.

CEA, the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission is a founding member of the DistrictLab company. The DistrictLab project was born and matured in one of CEA’s laboratory where the thermal-hydraulic kernel of our solution was entirely developed, verified and validated.

You want to
change the game
and built a climate- friendly future?

Today’s energy security crisis is essentially a heating crisis. Heating and cooling account for 50% of EU energy demand, with natural gas supplying a stunning 42% of the thermal demand.

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