Sell waste heat into a district heating network at a market price rather than donating it

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Connect the facility's cooling loop to a district heating network under a contract that pays per MWh delivered at a market-referenced price. Stockholm's open market has ~20 suppliers; Odense delivers 215,000 MWh/year to over 12,000 homes using ammonia heat pumps.

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Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Municipality of Amsterdam with data centre operators in the metropolitan region · 2019–2021 · City

Amsterdam imposed a moratorium on new data centre development from 2019 to 2021, with heat reuse among the conditions placed on the sector. Operators offered waste heat free of charge. The moratorium was lifted without…

Price paid for offered waste heat0EUR per MWh

Moratorium duration~18months

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Odense, Denmark

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Meta with Fjernvarme Fyn, engineering by Ramboll · since 2019 · City

Waste heat from Meta's Odense facility is captured and lifted by ammonia heat pumps from 30–40°C to 70–75°C (the temperature Fjernvarme Fyn's network requires) and delivered into the municipal district heating system. I…

Heat delivered0 (rejected to atmosphere) → 215,000MWh per year

Thermal capacity~45MW

Meta and Fjernvarme Fyn (municipal utility) · 1 source

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