District heating and cooling networks: Relationships

Every element and industry that District heating and cooling networks is linked to, and how. Each pair has its own card explaining the relationships between the two.

• Heat pumps, air conditioning and refrigeration: Energy flows from district heating and cooling networks to heat pumps, air conditioning and refrigeration; energy flows from heat pumps, air conditioning and refrigeration to district heating and cooling networks.
• Sensible heat storage: Energy flows from district heating and cooling networks to sensible heat storage; energy flows from sensible heat storage to district heating and cooling networks.
• Advanced geothermal: Energy flows from advanced geothermal to district heating and cooling networks.
• Biomass combustion and CHP: Energy flows from biomass combustion and CHP to district heating and cooling networks.
• Boilers, furnaces and stoves: Energy flows from boilers, furnaces and stoves to district heating and cooling networks.
• Carnot batteries: Energy flows from carnot batteries to district heating and cooling networks.
• Combined heat and power: Energy flows from combined heat and power to district heating and cooling networks.
• Electric heating: Energy flows from electric heating to district heating and cooling networks.
• Energy in buildings: Energy flows from district heating and cooling networks to energy in buildings.
• Energy-intensive industry: Energy flows from district heating and cooling networks to energy-intensive industry.
• Geothermal direct use and ground-source heat pumps: Energy flows from geothermal direct use and ground-source heat pumps to district heating and cooling networks.
• Geothermal power plants: Energy flows from geothermal power plants to district heating and cooling networks.
• Heat exchangers and pinch integration: Energy flows from heat exchangers and pinch integration to district heating and cooling networks.
• Industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression: Energy flows from industrial heat pumps and vapour recompression to district heating and cooling networks.
• Nuclear fission reactors: Energy flows from nuclear fission reactors to district heating and cooling networks.
• Shared and district heat reuse: Energy flows from shared and district heat reuse to district heating and cooling networks.
• Solar heat collectors: Energy flows from solar heat collectors to district heating and cooling networks.
• Steam turbines and thermal power plants: Energy flows from steam turbines and thermal power plants to district heating and cooling networks.
• Steel plant energy recovery: Energy flows from steel plant energy recovery to district heating and cooling networks.
• Waste-to-energy: Energy flows from waste-to-energy to district heating and cooling networks.