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Thermal networks (local heating, district heating, district cooling)
Thermal networks – including district heating-, local heating- or district cooling networks – are systems that provide a number of separate buildings with thermal energy. They supply heat to customers through pipelines that carry water or steam. As well as district heating networks there are also district cooling networks – which is why the more general term ‘thermal networks' is now used. The energy supplied by thermal networks does not necessarily come from renewable sources, but these systems are often characterised by their low CO2 emissions, for example when based on heat recovered from waste incineration . District heating is an excellent way of making use of waste heat or renewable energies and is therefore becoming increasingly important. District heating is defined as a system that provides customers with heat that is generated in a central plant and supplied through pipes in the form of hot water or steam; the performance of individual systems varies widely, from less than 100 kW to over 1 GW. The supply of heat to one group of recipients only is not regarded as district heating. The geodata on thermal networks document the district heating networks currently operating in Switzerland, and are based entirely on information provided by the network operators. The data are unofficial, are not legally binding, and are provided simply as information for the public.
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Thermal networks
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-11-13T00:00:00
- Date (Revision)
- 2026-04-08T04:25:10.1703433
- Identifier
- ch.bfe.thermische-netze
Owner
- Topic category
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- Q Utilities communication
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Switzerland
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Weekly
- Duration of Conservation
- 25
- Appraisal of Archival Value
- A
- Reason for Archiving Value
- Evidence of business practice
- geocat.ch
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Conservation and archiving planning AAP - Confederation
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opendata.swiss
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- geocat.ch
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FSDI Federal Spatial Data Infrastructure
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- Q1 Energy
- Basic Geodata
- false
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Distribution format
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INTERLIS 2 (XTF)
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TEXT, comma separated (CSV)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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ch.bfe.thermische-netze
WMS-FSDI service, layer "Thermal networks"
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Fachportal - map.energie.admin.ch
Thematic geoportal - map.energie.admin.ch
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- OnLine resource
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Csv
Csv
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- OnLine resource
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Geopackage
Geopackage
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- OnLine resource
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Interlis
Interlis
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- OnLine resource
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swisstopo REST API
swisstopo REST API
- Geometric object type
- Point
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:2056
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 92b85345-4513-45a8-b64a-d7dbebd648a3
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/92b85345-4513-45a8-b64a-d7dbebd648a3
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-06-12T13:53:52Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-04-13T09:45:14.415162Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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GM03 2+
