With its wide range of innovative assets, the Open Thor living lab is a leading European Innovation Environment. It brings together industry, entrepreneurs, investors, researchers, end users, citizens, and governments.

The oPEN Thor living lab, in collaboration with the city of Genk and local partners, integrates a number of neighboring residential areas and the adjacent KRC Genk site into the living lab. This gives all stakeholders access to state-of-the-art infrastructure, knowledge, and an extensive ecosystem to validate innovative energy solutions in a real and safe environment with end-users.

In order to link the different assets and infrastructures, a very innovative District Heating and Cooling grid as well as an electricity grid have been installed, in accordance with 5GDHC principles (...)

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