District heating turns waste heat into city-scale comfort. Recovery at substations, thermal-energy storage and heat pumps lifting low-grade heat into the network are the core building blocks. This hub collects CNCSP notes on district-energy recovery, including datacenter-waste-heat reuse.
Substations & networks
- Substation heat recovery
Extracting recoverable heat from return water at the substation. - District energy systems recovery
Integrating recovery across the whole district-energy loop. - Heat pumps into district networks
Lifting waste heat to network temperature with heat pumps. - Datacenter waste heat → district
Feeding reused datacenter heat into city networks.
Thermal storage
- Thermal-energy storage
Buffering recovery heat for time-shifted district use. - Seasonal thermal storage
Storing summer waste heat for winter heating. - Peak-shaving storage
Shaving peak load with thermal storage in district energy.
Related resources
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