Sell waste heat into a district heating network at a market price rather than donating it
#00225
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.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
FailedMunicipality of Amsterdam with data-center operators in the metropolitan region · 2019–2021 · City
Amsterdam imposed a moratorium on new data-center 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…
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Odense, Denmark
SuccessMeta 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…
Meta and Fjernvarme Fyn (municipal utility) · 1 source