The Cerema Heat Networks site: A new platform for development and building stakeholders

After more than ten years of existence, the Heating and cooling networks website has had a facelift, to offer new functionalities and better ergonomics to users.

This resource center for communities, players in the sector and curious individuals was created in 2011 at the instigation of the General Directorate for Energy and Climate (DGEC) of the Ministry for Ecological Transition, and the center of expertise of Cerema (at the time the CETE de l'Ouest, technical study centers for equipment).

In 2022, the Cerema site will offer new functionalities with ergonomics facilitating navigation for Internet users. Easy to consult, pleasant to read with its numerous illustrations, it is a mine of information which has all been updated.

A tool for local authorities and their partners

Since its creation in 2011, Cerema's Heating and Cooling Networks Pole has produced and disseminated knowledge and methodology to help achieve the renewable heating and cooling development objectives set by Europe and the French state.

While heating and cooling networks are increasingly identified as a major lever for the development of renewable and recovered energies as well as the adaptation to climate change in the territories, the Heat Networks site supports local authorities and their partners. to promote renewable heat and cold and set up favorable conditions for their deployment in the territories.

A site for those involved in the creation and management of heating networks

This new version of the site was produced by the team from the heating networks division with the support of other experts from Cerema Ouest, for content on energy planning or the thermal management of buildings in particular. The challenge was to provide communities, professionals and even the general public with a resource center with educational content and regulatory news via a dynamic and easy-to-use tool.

It includes methodological guides, thematic sheets, feedback or case studies, mapping of needs in terms of the development of these networks

Developed in-house, it also offers study reports and training slide shows and answers questions that regional technicians may have thanks to its FAQ section.