Sister Projects

PUSH2HEAT is a Horizon Europe project focused on accelerating the deployment of heat upgrade technologies for industrial decarbonisation. It demonstrates four large-scale systems that recover and upgrade industrial waste heat into usable heat (90–160°C) for sectors such as paper, chemicals, and food. The project tackles technical, economic, and regulatory barriers while validating business models and exploitation strategies. Through full-scale industrial demonstrations, it aims to improve efficiency, reduce CO₂ emissions, and increase market uptake of heat pump-based solutions.

HYCOOL-IT is a Horizon Europe project developing advanced, energy-efficient cooling and thermal management solutions for IT server rooms in tertiary buildings. It combines digital twin environments with innovative hardware, including a rack-integrated adsorption chiller that recovers waste heat to provide cooling. The project focuses on improving design, monitoring, and optimisation of server rooms through data-driven tools and standardised methods. Its goal is to reduce energy consumption, enable scalable deployment, and improve sustainability in data infrastructure.

HEATWISE is a Horizon Europe project focused on improving energy efficiency and waste heat utilisation in buildings with high IT loads, such as data centres. It develops hybrid cooling systems (air and liquid), digital twin-based energy management, and AI-driven optimisation tools to reduce energy consumption and maximise heat recovery. The project also integrates building-wide energy control systems and self-assessment tools, aiming to transform waste heat into usable energy while improving sustainability and reducing emissions.

SEEDS is a Horizon Europe project focused on accelerating the electrification and decarbonisation of heating and cooling in buildings. It develops cost-effective, replicable systems integrating heat pumps, renewable energy sources, thermal storage, and smart control technologies. The project demonstrates solutions across multiple European pilot sites and climate zones, aiming to improve energy efficiency, enable demand response, and increase grid flexibility. SEEDS also works on business models, digital tools, and replication strategies to support large-scale deployment across Europe.

MODERATOR is a Horizon Europe project aiming to radically improve data centre energy efficiency through immersion cooling and advanced waste-heat recovery. It develops an integrated system combining dielectric fluid cooling, phase-change material (PCM) thermal storage, and multilayer insulation using recycled materials. The system captures and stores low-grade heat for up to several months, enabling reuse for heating or electricity generation. A full-scale prototype (40 kW cooling, 500 kWh storage) demonstrates modular, sustainable data centre heat reuse solutions.

EEETHOS is a Horizon Europe project focused on decarbonising industrial process heating, which accounts for a significant share of EU energy use and emissions. It develops and demonstrates innovative electrification technologies such as high-temperature heat pumps, steam compressors, and radiative waste heat recovery systems capable of reaching up to 300°C. The project targets five energy-intensive sectors and aims to achieve 43–86% energy savings while replacing fossil fuels with renewable electricity through real industrial-scale demonstrations and digital optimisation tools.

THUNDER is a Horizon Europe project focused on recovering and reusing waste heat from data centres through advanced thermochemical seasonal storage and high-temperature heat pump systems. It develops an integrated solution that captures low-grade heat, stores it efficiently over long periods, and reuses it for district heating networks. Demonstrated in Varna (Bulgaria), the project aims to bridge data centres and urban energy systems, improve energy efficiency, reduce emissions, and support scalable replication across Europe.

UP-FLEXH is a research project focused on developing a first-of-a-kind high-temperature heat pump system for flexible, on-demand industrial heat supply. It targets medium- to high-temperature industrial processes (up to ~400°C) by integrating heat pumps, thermal energy storage (molten salts), solar thermal inputs, and waste heat recovery. The system is designed to be modular, efficient, and compatible with renewable electricity, enabling improved operational flexibility, reduced fossil fuel use, and significant CO₂ emissions reductions in industrial heating.