FUTURE URBAN ENERGY

Turning urban energy into assets
that keep creating value

THUMOS is a zero-carbon industrial ecosystem operator. Built on water, electricity, heat, carbon, energy storage, hydrogen and digitalization, we help cities, industrial parks and enterprises build their Second Value Factory — turning energy systems from cost centers into continuously productive assets.

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Strategy

The Second Value Factory

Every city, park and factory runs two factories. The first produces its core products and services. The second lies hidden in water, electricity, heat, carbon, storage and data — systems long treated as pure cost. Through systematic operation of demand response, off-peak thermal storage, virtual power plants and AI dispatch, we turn them into measurable, continuous sources of new value: energy savings, gas savings, carbon reduction, peak shaving, VPP revenues, asset operation and data value.

Urban Thermal Internet

Buildings as thermal energy nodes

In the future urban energy landscape, buildings are no longer mere heat consumers — they become metered, dispatchable, networked and tradeable thermal nodes. For high-density existing buildings in mega-cities, we develop low-carbon heating systems that combine high-efficiency electric heat sources, phase-change thermal storage, virtual power plants and AI dispatch.

01 / SOURCE

Electric Heat Source

Electrification retrofits of gas boilers with high-efficiency electric heating units suited to dense urban plant rooms.

02 / STORAGE

ThermRoots® PCM Storage

Charging with off-peak electricity and releasing heat at peak, reshaping building energy cost curves.

03 / DISPATCH

VPP × AI Dispatch

Aggregating thermal loads, storage and demand response into virtual power plants under AI-driven dispatch.

04 / ASSET

Thermal Asset Operation

Long-term operation under Full Energy Performance Contracting, sharing auditable value with building owners.

Business Portfolio

Six business lines

ThermRoots®

Phase-Change Thermal Storage

High-density PCM thermal storage for off-peak charging, peak shaving, building heating & cooling, industrial waste heat and data centers.

Electric Heating Units

High-Efficiency Heating

Compact, low-noise electric heating solutions for in-situ boiler-room electrification of high-density existing buildings. Performance subject to project conditions and third-party testing.

AquaVerse™

Industrial Water Assets

Circulating cooling water optimization, water asset enhancement, FEPC contracting and digital twin platforms for industry.

NexSolar™

PV Asset Enhancement

Robotic cleaning, nano self-cleaning coatings and AI O&M delivering measurable generation gains for existing PV plants.

HONG™

Hydrogen-Based Energy

Hydrogen-based distributed energy and green hydrogen solutions providing integrated steam, power and heat for parks and industry.

VPP × AI Dispatch

Virtual Power Plant

Connecting building loads, storage and demand response into dispatchable, operable and tradeable energy assets.

Milestones

From laboratory to industry

2017

Co-founded the Digital Energy Laboratory with Tongji University.

2018

THUMOS (Shanghai) Energy Technology Co., Ltd. founded in Shanghai.

2019

Partnership established with Sunamp (UK), bringing world-leading PCM heat storage to China.

2021

Comprehensive strategic cooperation agreement signed with Sunamp during COP26.

2023

Certified as a National High-Tech Enterprise; co-initiated the Future City Research Center and Zero-Carbon Building Research Center.

2024

Expanded into zero-carbon parks, energy storage & VPP, solar EPC and industrial water services.

Now

Advancing the Urban Thermal Internet demonstration program for low-carbon heating in Shanghai.

Contact

Build the Second Value Factory with us

COMPANYTHUMOS (Shanghai) Energy Technology Co., Ltd.
LOCATIONShanghai, China
WEBwww.thumos.com.cn