Summer Meeting 2024

Towards the 4th generation of energy networks: online the new edition of the Digital roadmap for District heating and cooling OPTIT solutions for optimising energy production and heating and cooling infrastructure. Energy used for Heating and Cooling purposes represents approx….

Founded in 1909 as the National District Heating Association, IDEA was the first major organization to support and popularize district heating. After more than a century of activity, IDEA continues to inform, connect and promote district heating around the world…

Optit, in the person of Antonio Napoletano, participated in the 8th meeting of VeRoLog (EURO Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization) in Hamburg, one of the most important and authoritative international conferences in the field of routing and…

  Optit will meet RETROFEED partners for the 5th General Assembly, highlighting progress in the Work Package 4 devoted to the development of the Project’s Decision SUpport System.    For the first time we will be in the condition to…

The Italian magazine Servizi a Rete presents UpgradeDH, the EU H2020 project for the renovation and improvement of the performance of district heating systems in Europe, where Optit participate as major technical partner. Nowadays, the urban planning strategies adopted by…

Corporate meetings the way we like them. The evening was full of joy, music and creativity. We thank BgBuilding – Team Building Italia for the teambuilding activity that allowed us to play at being artists by decorating bikes for the…

Confindustria Romagna brings together companies and academics to look beyond the critical circumstance we are experiencing. Tuesday, June 9 from 11.00 to 12.30 am business representatives and academics face this topic together during the webinar by Confindustria Romagna “Enterprise and…

Matteo Pozzi to represent DHC+ at IEA’s event: “Digitalization for optimizing integrated district heating system” On 3rd November Matteo Pozzi will speak as a Vice-Chair of DHC+ during the webinar: “Digitalization for optimizing integrated district heating system”.  The event is…

Optit’s project on optimising maintenance planning for district heating networks in Brescia (A2A) awarded at the Nottingham Symposium of the International Energy Agency. We had already reported on our presence at the 17th IEA Symposium, Technology Collaboration Programme on District…

Initially planned to include one of the key annual events for the Italian district heating community, to be held in Bologna (Italy) under the auspices of AIRU, current circumstances are forcing the UpgradeDH partners to gather for the periodic progress…

Initiating project H2020 for the development of an integrated planning instrument for multi-energy systems PLAMES is a project financed by the European Union and directed by Rheinisch-Westfaelische Technische Hochschule Aachen (Germany) in partnership with the University of Bologna, OPTIT and…

The RETROFEED project, of which Optit is a partner, is aimed at enabling the optimization of a feedstock that is increasingly variable, bio-based, and circular in energy-intensive process industries through the retrofitting of key equipment and the implementation of an…

February 11th marks the International Day of Women in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics). Science and gender equality are two development goals within the Agenda 2030 for sustainability. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization dedicates February 11th each…

A further opportunity to contribute to the development of district energy in Europe. Optit’s involvement in the DHC+, technological platform of Euroheat & Power, has always been more than a formal membership, but rather an active contribution with our research,…

Optit is now online with a completely re-designed site As a leader in digital innovation for businesses, we have placed our trust in Jack Blutharsky, a Bologna-based company, to re-think our website from the ground up. Mathematics and communication merge…