| Milestones | |
|---|---|
| June 2026 | Opening of a new office in Düsseldorf, Germany. |
| June 2026 | 500 companies have purchased user licenses for nPro. |
| April 2026 | Start of the research project “CORE-KI”, funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. The project develops data-driven AI-based design methods for districts and heating networks. |
| November 2025 | Release of Version 4.0 |
| October 2025 | 400 companies have purchased user licenses for nPro. |
| September 2025 | Marco Wirtz presents current development results from nPro for the dimensioning of 5GDHC networks at the 19th District Heating and Cooling Symposium (07–10 September, Genk, Belgium). |
| May 2025 | Marco Wirtz from nPro Energy presents a proprietary algorithm for the dimensioning of 5GDHC networks at ICENSS 2025 (4th International Conference on Energy Storage and Saving, 26–27 May, Paris, France). |
| October 2024 | Release of Version 3.0 |
| September 2024 | Mention of nPro founder Marco Wirtz as technical expert in a New York Times article on the topic of “5th generation district heating and cooling networks” (print edition from September 25, 2024). |
| May 2024 | 130 companies have purchased user licenses for nPro software. |
| March 2024 | 2.000 users have registered for the nPro software. |
| October 2023 | Release of Version 2.0 |
| September 2023 | 1.000 users from more than 35 countries have registered for the nPro software. |
| April 2023 | New article in the scientific journal Energy: nPro: A web-based planning tool for designing district energy systems and thermal networks |
| March 2023 | Start of the research project “Plan4Heat” funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection. The research project contributes to the development of state-of-the-art simulation approaches for district energy systems and thermal networks, with the perspective of integrating them into the nPro software. |
| December 2022 | Marco Wirtz presents nPro at the Siemens RIE Conference 2023 at RWTH Aachen University. |
| November 2022 | nPro wins the Spin-Off Award 2023 from RWTH Aachen University. |
| September 2022 | Scientific article for the Energy & Climate Protection Foundation: Kalte Nahwärme - Eine Schlüsseltechnologie für die Wärmewende? |
| July 2022 | The first version of the nPro software (Version 1.0) goes online! |