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How a German Factory Uses Waste Heat to Power a District
Episode 27 of The Manufacturing Podcast visits the Bavarian town of Unterschleißheim, where a medium-sized automotive components factory has turned its waste heat into a revenue stream by piping it into a municipal district heating network. Lucas and Luna unpack the numbers: 14 million euros in annual revenue for the factory, a 5-year payback period on the heat-recovery infrastructure, and the engineering decisions behind the high-temperature heat pumps and thermal storage tanks. They also discuss the regulatory push from Germany's Building Energy Act, which has made district heating a…
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