Bloomberg
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In the picturesque Bavarian city of Augsburg, 500 homes will soon be kept warm using excess heat from a nearby Rolls Royce Solutions factory. In Leipzig, a similar project involving a TotalEnergies SE refinery received federal funding last month.
The efforts mark part of a broader push to turn Germany’s massive manufacturing sector into a supplier of a more decarbonized heating system. Research estimated the nation’s waste heat potential amounted to around 67 terawatt-hours in 2021 — equal to 15% of total industrial heat consumption.
“We don’t need as much heat as we generate,” said Tobias Schnell, chief executive at Rolls Royce Solutions’ Augsburg factory. “That’s why we decided to feed this heat into the city’s district heating network.”
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