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Jacobs to Support BaroMar with Long-Duration Underwater Energy Storage Pilot

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Jacobs Summary Jacobs has been appointed by BaroMar , an energy storage innovation company, to develop the preliminary design for a first-of-its-kind underwater large-scale, long-duration energy storage pilot project. Located off the coast of Cyprus, the project addresses the growing demand for sustainable energy solutions by demonstrating the practical application and scalability of new technology that is simple, efficient, cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Leveraging existing, mature technology in power, energy, and marine engineering, combined with the hydrostatic pressure of the seawater, the system aims to achieve relatively low installation ...
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Swedish energy giant Vattenfall aims to roll out heat networks in five UK cities

By District Energy posted 3 days ago
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Mirror Summary Installing heat networks to replace home gas boilers in urban areas is an investment opportunity worth tens of billions of pounds, an energy company has said. Vattenfall, the Swedish state-owned energy giant, said it is looking to invest £1billion into the infrastructure required to roll out heat networks across five to eight UK cities by 2030. Jenny Curtis, the managing director of Vattenfall Heat UK, has put a price tag on the Government's ambition to connect 20% of British homes to heat networks by 2050, estimating it will cost £60-£80billion investment over the period. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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EIB Bankrolls Two Renewable Energy Projects in Helsinki

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Rigzone Summary The European Investment Bank (EIB) will provide a EUR 150 million ($160.7 million) loan to Helen Ltd. for two new renewable energy projects to transform Helsinki’s district heating system. The energy company owned by the City of Helsinki needs EUR 209 million ($224 million) for the projects. EIB said in a media release that the loan covers 72 percent of the projects’ bill. The investment is part of the EIB’s package of support for REPowerEU, the plan to reduce the European Union’s dependence on imports of fossil fuels. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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The Gigawatt Data Center Campus is Coming

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Data Center Frontier Summary The Internet is entering an era of gigawatt-scale data center campuses to power artificial intelligence (AI), according to developers and industry groups, who say this approach provides the best opportunity to support AI workloads with renewable energy. Hyperscale tech companies are already seeking sites for campuses that can support a gigawatt of electric power capacity, equal to 1,000 megawatts or 1 billion watts, according to speakers at last week’s Data Center World conference. These could include energy storage, hydrogen fuel cells , microgrids , enhanced geothermal energy , renewable generator fuel like hydrotreated ...
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Heading into the Future: City of Nome Explores Sustainable Energy with Nuclear Microreactors

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KNOM Summary As Nome stands on the precipice of significant economic transformation, with plans for a massive port expansion already underway, the community is faced with another pivotal decision— whether or not to embrace nuclear microreactors as a part of its future energy strategy. While these projects promise economic growth and opportunities, they also bring challenges and choices about the kind of future Nome wants to build. Michael Valore, Senior Director for Advanced Reactor Commercialization at Westinghouse Electric Company, and Gwen Holdmann, Founding Director of the Alaska Center for Energy and Power, discussed the microreactor technology’s ...
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Cindrigo acquires three new German geothermal energy projects

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Energy Global Summary Cindrigo has signed a term sheet with Zukunft Geowärme GmbH (ZGW), a German geothermal project developer, to acquire a majority interest in three geothermal energy projects. The projects, located in the Upper Rhine Valley, have an initial target of approximately 90 MW (around 30 MW each), and a combined target installed potential capacity exceeding 400 MW, encompassing both geothermal power and heat generation. Germany has one of the world's most advanced and lucrative geothermal markets, characterised by strong political support, well developed legal structure, high power prices and robust demand for heat. The German Renewable ...
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Utilities call for state money to fund decommissioning of German gas grid

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Clean Energy Wire Summary Germany’s local utility association VKU has called for public support to finance the decommissioning of the country’s natural gas grid and avoid high fees for customers, news agency dpa reported in an article published on news website n-tv. “Once it becomes clear that a smaller customer base and rising grid costs will make prices rise to levels that are so far unheard of, we will have to talk about whether we need a state-funded compensation account,” VKU head Ingbert Liebing said. “The state funds the ramp-up of the new [energy] world with tax money, but retiring the old world also costs money,” Liebing argued. ...
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College Energy Plant Earns National Sustainability Award

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Wake Tech News Summary The Central Energy Plant at Wake Tech East has been named Green Globes® Project of the Year by the Green Building Initiative. Designed by HH Architecture and constructed by Skanska, the 15,700-square-foot facility provides heating and cooling for the entire campus. The honor was announced at a virtual awards ceremony on April 25. Thanks to its many energy-saving features, the Central Energy Plant is also the first facility in North Carolina to earn a Four Green Globes ® certification for sustainability. Continue Reading #News #MemberNewsIDEA #WakeForestUniversity #DistrictEnergy
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Olmsted County hosts open house for Waste to Energy Facility

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KIMT3 News Summary Olmsted County invited community members to the Waste-to-Energy open house on April 27th. Those who went had an opportunity to get a glimpse at how the county dealt with solid waste. With Olmsted County in the Karst region this means the Waste-to-Energy facility is more environmentally friendy. Those on the tour got to see what operators in the facility do. Wittmer says, "You get to go up to the control room, you'll see the operators using the crane and grapple. We use garbage as a resource or biomass fuel for the production of steam for heating and cooling buildings on Olmsted County's District Energy System as well as electrical ...
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Metro Vancouver moves to take some heat off its Burnaby trash incinerator

By District Energy posted 6 days ago
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Vancouver Sun Summary Metro Vancouver plans to cut the GHG impact of its Burnaby incinerator with a district heat system to take 50,000 homes off of natural gas. Metro Vancouver is deep into a $207 million plan to offset the greenhouse gases it produces from burning about 25 per cent of the region’s garbage with what could be the biggest district energy system in North America. The regional authority has incinerated about 240,000 tonnes of the region’s trash at a facility in South Burnaby since 1988, where it has also always generated enough electricity to power some 16,000 homes, said Paul Henderson, general manager of solid waste service. The next ...
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Suntec City to join Marina Bay district cooling network by 2027

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The Straits Time Summary Suntec City will be the latest development to be linked to utilities firm SP Group’s massive underground district cooling system in Marina Bay, expanding what is already the world’s largest such network, SP Group and Suntec City said on April 29. It is among 38 developments in the Central Business District that will be served by the Marina Bay district cooling network. There are 24 developments currently connected to the network, including two hotels – Marina Bay Sands and The Westin Singapore (within Asia Square Tower 2) – as well as IOI Central Boulevard Towers, The Sail @ Marina Bay and One Marina Boulevard, SP told The ...
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Dubai's 350-metre-high Al Habtoor Tower awards district cooling contract to Empower

By District Energy posted 6 days ago
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Gulf News Summary Empower has been contracted to provide district cooling for the 350-metre-high Al Habtoor Tower, one of the world's tallest residential towers in the making. DFM-listed Empower will provide 7,200 refrigeration tons (RT) of cooling capacity to the new development, starting in the second quarter of 2025. On completion, Al Habtoor Tower will lay claim to be the world's tallest standalone residential tower. (There are other projects in Dubai currently aiming for the same title.) Al Habtoor Tower residential project, being built by the China Railway 18th Bureau Group Ltd., will be serviced from Empower's Business Bay district ...
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Firm's plans for 'small-scale' new power plant in Carlisle

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Microsoft Start Summary PLANS have been submitted to construct and operate a new power station in Carlisle which would create energy from recycled materials. If given the green light, the 'embedded waste fuel gasification and combined heat and power (CHP) generation facility' proposed by North West Regeneration Ltd will make use of solid recovered fuels (SRF), produced on-site by North West Recycling Ltd at units on Kingmoor Park Rockcliffe Estate. Continue Reading #News #CHP
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UMD Advances With New Energy System Implementation

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India Education Diary Summary The University of Maryland will seek the state’s approval to replace the campus’ aging power, boiler and chiller plants and key portions of the thermal distribution system as part of a long-term plan to pursue sustainable, fossil fuel-free energy alternatives. A $390 million investment in campus infrastructure, the NextGen Energy Program stands to significantly improve energy service on campus and result in immediate environmental impact, including cutting carbon emissions by 23% and reducing water consumption by 50% a year. “A carbon-neutral campus is a significant step, but now it’s time to set our sights on reducing UMD’s ...
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How Iowa State University hopes to keep renewable energy secure from cyberattacks

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Ames Tribune Summary Iowa State University's Manimaran Govindarasu believes bringing renewable energy to the power grid raises all kinds of “internet-of-things” issues. To help the power industry defend itself, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has selected a project led by Iowa State University engineers for a two-year, $2.5 million grant. Project partners will also contribute $1 million in cost-share funding, including equipment and labor costs. The funding will create a new cybersecurity center based at Iowa State called CyDERMS, the Center for Cybersecurity and Resiliency of DERs and Microgrids-integrated Distribution Systems. DERs are ...
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St. George Campus Plans to Cut Carbon Emissions in Half by 2027

By District Energy posted 6 days ago
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University of Toronto Summary The block-shaped, brick industrial facility at 17 Ursula Franklin Street might not be U of T’s most iconic building, but in many ways, it is the unsung hero that enables the St. George campus’s more well-known edifices to function. It’s the heart of the district energy system – the central steam plant. There, water is boiled to make steam that is piped around to heat most buildings on campus, as well as some nearby non-university properties such as the Royal Ontario Museum. But the plant was built in the early 1950s and needs an eco-friendly upgrade. Its boilers burn natural gas. Switching from gas to electric ...
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A living laboratory

By District Energy posted 6 days ago
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Montana State University Summary Over the past 15 years, the physical footprint of Montana State University has grown by nearly 1.5 million square feet in new and renovated buildings, and the student body has grown by 37% percent, an increase of 4,600 students. “The last 10 years of projects are really significant,” said Megan James, engineering and utilities director. “We remain focused on projects that address the core mission of Facilities Management and also provide a foundation for the Sustainability Framework.” Among the key pieces being put in place are the campus energy districts, which reduce energy use by allowing the buildings in the districts ...
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ETH Zurich sells district heating to the City of Zurich

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ETH Zurist Summary The City of Zurich intends to take over ETH’s district heating system in the Zentrum area. With the sale, ETH is strengthening its focus and is drawing a line under a situation that has developed over time. From the 1940s onwards, research in large-​scale heating systems, namely steam turbines, large boilers and heat exchangers, increased in importance at ETH Zurich. The resulting waste heat was used initially to heat university buildings and later also neighbouring properties around the ML/FHK building. Over the years, a district heating network developed around the Zentrum campus. Today, ETH no longer uses the facilities ...
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Finland's households turn to Bitcoin mining to heat homes

By District Energy posted 10 days ago
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Coin Telegraph Summary A new project in Finland is turning energy from mining Bitcoin cryptocurrency into energy to heat homes during the cold Finnish winter. Bitcoin mining infrastructure firm Hashlabs Mining has introduced a pioneering project enabling heat generation using specially designed Bitcoin mining devices. The project combines heat production from the hydro-cooled ASIC mining device — a WhatsMiner M63S — with the Finnish district heating system, where the heat is transferred from a centralized source through a network of insulated pipes to multiple buildings. The new project is designed to allow households to benefit ...
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Scandinavian-style district heating systems should generate interest

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The Irish Times Summary District hearing systems distribute heat generated from a central location to multiple buildings or properties within a defined geographic area, typically a residential neighbourhood. Heat is produced through a variety of sources including combined heat and power plants, waste heat from industrial processes, geothermal energy, landfill waste and renewable sources such as biomass or solar thermal energy. It is then transported through a network of insulated pipes to provide space heating and hot water to residential, commercial and industrial buildings. District heating systems are seen as efficient as they can utilise waste heat ...
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