Sustainable district heating with heat pumps
Valmet’s automation solutions for heat pump plants
Valmet provides advanced automation solutions that optimize the performance of heat pump plants for modern district heating networks. With the Valmet DNA Automation System, operators can achieve real-time control, improved energy efficiency, and reduced operational costs while seamlessly integrating heat pumps, electric boilers, and thermal energy storage. These solutions enable low-carbon, cost-effective, and reliable energy production, helping utilities balance supply and demand and support the transition to sustainable heating.
Improved energy efficiency
Reduced carbon emissions
Enhanced operational flexibility
Lower maintenance and lifecycle costs
Heat pumps - essential for the future of district heating
Heat pumps are at the core of sustainable district heating. They produce more thermal energy than the electricity they consume, significantly reducing greenhouse gas emissions and environmental impact. By transferring heat from air, water, or waste sources, they provide clean, quiet, and efficient heat, ideal for urban environments.
With real-time flexibility, heat pumps adjust output to meet varying demand, maintaining low operating costs. When combined with thermal energy storage, they can decouple heat production from demand, optimize electricity use, and participate in reserve markets, enhancing both technical and economic performance.
By integrating renewable energy, waste heat recovery, and smart automation, heat pumps form the foundation of flexible, low-carbon district heating systems.
Valmet's solutions for heat pump plants
Valmet offers comprehensive automation and energy management solutions for heat pump plants, ensuring efficient, reliable, and sustainable operations. By integrating heat pumps, electric boilers, and thermal energy storage, Valmet DNA provides advanced energy automation, balances supply and demand, and strengthens grid stability.
The Valmet DNA Automation System enhances plant performance through real-time control, improved efficiency, and optimized energy use. The Valmet DNA Energy Management System (EMS) adds flexibility, enabling rapid adaptation to changing heating demands, market dynamics, and weather conditions. The Valmet DNA Energy Balance Optimizer manages heat pumps and fleet production in real time, based on confirmed market trades and EMS plans, optimized and balanced energy operations.
The excess heat offtake project from the data center areas is our flagship project in decarbonizing our district heat production. We wanted to ensure that the automation technology partner is reliable and has the exact solutions we need. Valmet has a convincing track record in our other production sites, which made our choice quite straightforward”.
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