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Let's not waste heat!

Urban waste heat sources are increasingly important to reach 2050 targets as fossil fuels are being phased out. The ReUseHeat project financed under the European H2020 framework, is generating knowledge on how excess heat from data centres, sewage water treatment, service sector buildings and metro stations can be reused in district heating systems. The project aims to overcome both technical and non-technical barriers to the unlocking of urban waste heat recovery investments across Europe.

With this newsletter, we are delighted to inform you that our demonstrator in Madrid is going live despite the COVID-19 pandemic, ReUseHeat is being featured in various webinars, and our latest project reports and scientific articles are available online! Read more and stay in touch!

Data Centres

The data centre has a significant cooling demand, producing excess heat - which will be fed to a low temperature district heating network

Underground Transport

Waste heat produced in the tunnel of the metro network will be recovered and reused in a local low-temperature district heating network

Waste Water Management

An integrated urban planning concept will include the innovative recovery of waste heat from a sewage system

DEMO Severo Ochoa Hospital. MADRID

ReUseHeat demonstrator of the service sector heat recovery (hospital) is going live in April 2021!

Each solution has been adapted to the installation and operation of the hospital facilities.

Installation of the entire system, the connection to the current heating and refrigeration circuit will help collect the monitoring data.

On the picture, you can see the final works done with valves, devices and sensors, to connect the new pipelines.

Help us improve the ReUseHeat web-based visualisation tool!

To foster urban waste heat recovery projects, it is of great importance to quantify and locate the urban waste heat potential from non-conventional sources in the countries of the European Union. In this sense, a web-based visualisation tool has been created with real information about the potential of urban excess heat using data collected within the project.

The data collection is still in progress. We would like to invite waste heat owners across the EU to help us gather information about their residual heat by filling in the ReUseHeat questionnaire.

Waste heat solutions for Europe's green recovery

On 19 March 2021, ReUseHeat joined forces with DryFiciency, REWARDHeat and R-ACES in a discussion on the opportunities to realising the potential of waste heat, and how they can be leveraged using the latest technological solutions.

Kristina Lygnerud shared learnings to date from the four ReUseHeat demo sites and brought her perspective on the appropriate business models for waste heat recovery.

Time to Push! Stakeholder Engagement

When done properly, stakeholder engagement can be the key to the success of a district energy network. Yet, there are many different stakeholders, and each is to be engaged in a particular way. In the framework of the Euroheat & Power Congress Virtual Thursdays, at 10:00 CET on 15 April, the Celsius Initiative is partnering up with the REWARDHeat and ReUseHeat projects to address the question of how utility companies can better engage with the end-users.

Christian Keim (EDF) will present the ReUseHeat Dashbord which represents a first of a kind solution to raise acceptance and awareness of sustainable district heating among end-users.

Waste heat news

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A New Children Book Reveals How Sustainable Data Centers Work

Caransa Group to build Amsterdam’s first district heating data center