"heating networks" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to a system of interconnected pipes or channels that distribute heat to multiple buildings or areas from a central heating source. Example: The city's new sustainable development plan includes the implementation of heating networks to reduce individual energy consumption in buildings.
The 1970s saw the beginning of a massive expansion of district heating networks in Denmark.
Modern district heating networks in Denmark supply 60percentt of heating, much of it from combined heat and power plants.
As Duedahl explained, Copenhagen has one of the largest and oldest district heating networks in the world.
The population voted to re-communalise electricity, gas and district heating networks currently in the hands of multinational energy companies.
Since the 1970s, however, many utilities have lost interest in heating networks, which are costly to maintain.
The report suggests the additional cost of making the reactors capable of delivering CHP is small, but future heat revenues could be significant if district heating networks materialise.
And with a narrow majority, Germany's second-largest city voted to take all available steps to completely take over the electricity, gas, and district heating networks that it had sold to Vattenfall and German energy company E.On only decades earlier.
Bronowice's pollution levels are among the city's highest because of its many single-family homes whose residents are more likely to use coal than people living in flats, where gas or district heating networks are more often available.
In the Polish cities where they exist, district heating networks have the added plus of providing an affordable alternative to the widespread practice of burning coal in low-tech, often filterless home stoves.
In Europe, hot water from 50 or so district-heating networks is now also used to power thermal air-conditioning, according to Ursula Eicker, a refrigeration expert at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences in Germany.She expects that this number will rise as efficiencies improve.
A system optimisation approach is proposed to design biomass-based district-heating networks in the context of industrial districts, which are one of the main successful productive aspects of Italian industry.
