The New York Times
Summary
Tourists strolling along the banks of the River Thames in the heart of London will soon have reason to be grateful for a busy construction site on their path.
As it nears its scheduled completion over the next few years, the Bankside Yards project of shops, offices and 600 apartments will open up new public spaces and make it easier to walk between attractions such as Tate Modern and the Royal Festival Hall.
Bankside Yards is using a “fifth-generation” combined heating and cooling network that can balance energy within each building and then between buildings by collecting unwanted heat, say from a refrigerator in a restaurant or a piece of office equipment that needs to be cooled, and carrying that heat to somewhere that needs hot water or domestic heating.
The fifth-generation network is the latest version of district heating, an approach commercially pioneered in the United States in the 1870s, in which buildings were heated through a shared network of pipes rather than having their own boilers or stoves.
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