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Heat, Gas and Water: Smart Solutions for Modern Utility Networks

5/13/2025

At WAGO, we bring intelligence to utility networks – well beyond just the power grid. Our technologies are proven in the field, cost-effective, future-proof, and compliant with critical infrastructure standards. Success stories from real-world applications in heating, gas, and water systems highlight this.

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Heat Transition with WAGO

Germany’s heat transition is vital for reaching climate goals. Municipal utilities have always worked to improve heat supply – but now, municipal heat planning makes this legally binding. By 2030, half of the country’s heat must come from sustainable sources. District heating and sector coupling are crucial. WAGO provides the tools to make this transition cost-effective and achievable.

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Accelerating the Energy Transition – with WAGO

It’s time to accelerate the energy transition by hitting the gas. Yes, you read that right: gas! Currently, gas covers about a quarter of Germany’s total primary energy consumption – and unlike natural gas, gaseous energy carriers will remain essential in the future. This also applies to supply networks. From power-to-gas storage systems to modern gas distribution stations, WAGO’s solutions deliver proven safety and reliability in hazardous environments.

Water Management at a Crossroads

Is water becoming the new gold? According to BDEW, the German Association of Energy and Water Industries, it is already clear that climate change, nitrate pollution, and trace substances from chemical and pharmaceutical products are contributing to this. These factors are causing extreme peaks in demand and significantly altering the water balance. Ensuring a reliable water supply and effective wastewater treatment is more critical than ever. To meet these challenges, water supply and disposal systems must be adapted for the future. WAGO technology plays a key role in supporting this transition.

Solutions for the Distribution Grid

The pressure on distribution networks continues to rise – driven by decentralized power generation, the shift to electric mobility, Redispatch 2.0, and broader sector electrification. These challenges underscore the grid’s pivotal role in achieving a climate-neutral, secure energy supply. WAGO helps utilities meet these demands with flexible, intelligent solutions.

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Sector Coupling: From Supply Networks to the Energy System

The decentralized and digitized electricity sector is bringing heat and mobility into focus for energy providers. Energy storage is a cornerstone of the energy transition – and heat and gas networks offer untapped potential. That’s why power-to-heat and power-to-gas systems are becoming more important. These use excess green electricity to generate heat and storable gases like hydrogen and methane. WAGO supplies manufacturers of such systems and supports utilities in modernizing their heat and gas networks. Coupling energy sectors and managing increasingly complex energy flows is not just smart – it’s essential.

Customer Applications

Explore select reference projects showcasing how WAGO supports long-term partnerships and innovation in supply networks.

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Efficiency in District Heating Control Center

In Flensburg, they make their own electricity – and, for more than 30 years, have done so in connection with a district heating network. When it commissioned a new gas and steam turbine system in the fall of 2016, this city on the Baltic Sea bid adieu to coal; it now uses natural gas for the district power-heat coupling. In parallel, this city in Schleswig-Holstein also modernized its district heating network. Control technology from WAGO is used for the decentralized control, as well as the connection to the remote monitoring.

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Safe Pressure Regulation

People tend to think that at this point, the energy transition is limited to just the electrical sector. But DREWAG NETZ GmbH is going a step further and modernizing its gas distribution stations to bring intelligence to its gas division. For this process, the company relies on automation solutions from WAGO.

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Water 4.0 – Fit for the Future

New Process Control System for the Stuttgart Sewer System from ME-Automation Projects with WAGO Telecontrol Solution

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