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Cooling hot subways in NYC with Canadian tech

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CBC Summary Underground subway stations are hot and getting hotter, drawing complaints from transit riders around the world . That includes those in Canadian cities such as Montreal , where a reporter recently measured the temperature as 38 C. Now a Canadian company is testing an energy-efficient cooling solution in New York City's subway system. Toronto-based Cascara Energy and New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority are installing the radiant cooling system in ceiling arches in East Broadway station. The first units are expected to be running at the end of August and the pilot will continue until the end of 2027. The London ...
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Is This Geothermal Energy’s Moment?

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National Interest Summary For decades, geothermal energy has been viewed as a promising but niche source of clean, reliable energy. Today, increased electricity demand from artificial intelligence (AI) and data centers, advances in technology, demand for clean energy, and growing public and private investment have reignited interest in the sector. But while many see geothermal as an emerging pillar of the energy transition, others argue that expectations have run ahead of commercial reality. This debate explores whether geothermal is finally ready to scale or whether its greatest near-term value lies elsewhere. Geothermal power for electricity still ...
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Drilling contract signed for second doublet for AFK geothermal heating project, Germany

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Think GeoEnergy Summary AFK Geothermie has signed the drilling contracts for its second deep geothermal doublet with drilling company Daldrup & Söhne AG following a Europe-wide tender. Construction of the drilling site is expected to begin over the summer holidays with start of drilling operations targeted by November 2026. AFK Geothermie is an inter-municipality geothermal heating company founded in 2008 by the communities of Aschheim, Feldkirchen, and Kirchheim in Eastern Munich. It is currently supplying 1600 customers across all three communities with geothermal heat. Its current heating network has already reached its full capacity, prompting ...
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District heating to play major role in large German cities

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Clean Energy Wire Summary Large German cities are betting on district heating as a central technology of their future clean heat supply, two research reports have shown. A report by the Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs and Spatial Development (BBSR) "shows that the proportion of heat supplied via district heating networks in major cities is set to increase significantly,” the authors wrote. The institute analysed the 72 available district heating plans from Germany’s cities with more than 100,000 residents – out of a total of 83, with the remaining 11 missing the deadline to finalise their plan by 30 June – and found that ...
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Romania's SAPE gets 55 mln euro loan for cogeneration plant in Bucharest

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SeeNews Summary Romania's Energy Shareholdings Administration Association (SAPE) said it has signed a syndicated financing contract worth about 289 million lei ($63.5 million/55.1 million euro) with local state-owned banks CEC Bank and Exim Banca Romaneasca to support the development of the CET Titan Bucharest cogeneration plant. The plant will also supply about 200 GWh of thermal energy per year to Bucharest's centralised district heating system, helping to enhance the security of the thermal energy supply in underserved areas of the capital. Continue Reading #News #CHP #DistrictHeating
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Government of Canada investing over $1 million in Indigenous-led clean energy in northwestern Ontario

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Big News Network Summary FedNor funds will support the installation of a district heating system in Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek The Honourable Patty Hajdu, Minister of Jobs and Families and Minister responsible for FedNor, and Member of Parliament for Thunder Bay-Superior North, announced a total investment of $1,129,183 to Bingwi Neyaashi Anishnaabek (BNA) to help support the installation of a district biomass heating system that will provide reliable heat to buildings throughout the community. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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Antin has entered into exclusive negotiations with the Infrastructure Investments Fund for the sale of Idex

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business wire Summary Antin Infrastructure Partners (Paris:ANTIN), through its Flagship Fund III and Fund III-B, has entered into exclusive negotiations with the Infrastructure Investments Fund (IIF) for the sale of Idex. Founded in 1963 and headquartered near Paris, Idex is a leading European independent energy infrastructure platform, delivering the full suite of decarbonisation solutions to public entities, industrial, residential and tertiary customers. The company operates 60 district heating and cooling networks, 32 energy production plants, 13 energy-from-waste plants and services 18,000 buildings for their energy needs. Continue Reading ...
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NCC and Hydro Ottawa partner on district energy system at LeBreton Flats

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Ottawa Business Journal Summary The National Capital Commission and Hydro Ottawa Group are partnering on a 99-year district energy initiative for LeBreton Flats, the organizations announced Friday. The initiative, in collaboration with Public Services and Procurement Canada through the federal government’s Energy Services Acquisition Program, “brings a next-generation low-carbon district energy system to LeBreton Flats.” The system will substitute fragmented, individual building systems with a unified network that will provide heating and cooling directly to future buildings within the developing LeBreton Flats community. “This partnership underscores ...
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Veolia trials new carbon capture technology in ‘UK first’

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edie Summary Working with Sheffield City Council, Veolia has this week (3 August) announced that it has validated the potential of a next-generation, non-amine carbon capture solution at the Sheffield Energy Recovery Facility (ERF). The site burns municipal waste, generating CO2 in the process, to generate electricity and supply heat to Sheffield’s District Energy Network. The ongoing two-year pilot project is being delivered in partnership with cleantech company C-Capture, using a non-amine solvent that was originally discovered by scientists at the University of Leeds. To begin with, the CO2 will be released into the atmosphere so that engineers ...
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Toronto cools its downtown with 39-degree water pulled from 270 feet down in Lake Ontario

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Autonotion Summary Every air conditioner you have ever owned works the same way. It burns electricity to move heat out of a room and dump it into air that is already hot, which is why grid operators across the Northeast and Ontario spend every July watching the demand curve climb. Toronto mostly skips that step. The downtown core is cooled by water pulled off the bottom of Lake Ontario , and once that water has finished chilling a hospital, an arena and a run of office towers, it goes into the city’s drinking supply. Enwave Energy Corporation runs the network. Three intake pipes reach roughly three miles out into Lake Ontario, and a fourth was commissioned ...
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MoU signed for first open-space cooling geothermal system in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Think GeoEnergy Summary A binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been signed for the development of the world’s first open-space cooling geothermal system at the Jnayin Nourah Project, located at the Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The project will utiliz eht patented PrimeLoop technology of geothermal cooling company Strataphy . The MoU was signed by four parties including Strataphy as the provider of PrimeLoop technology, the Saudi District Cooling Compan y (Saudi Tabreed) as the district cooling infrastructure developer, and the consortium of “Best Land for Real Estate and Investment LLC” and “Daim ...
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Cleveland Thermal Modernizes Cooling Infrastructure for the Future

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Cooling Best Practices Summary For more than a century, a district energy system has powered some of the most important buildings in downtown Cleveland, OH. Today known as Corix Cleveland Thermal, the system provides steam and chilled water to approximately 90 buildings encompassing 20 million square feet of space. Its customers include government facilities, hotels, educational institutions, apartment buildings and convention facilities relying on the system for heating and cooling. The district energy network traces its roots to 1894, when the original steam system was established. Chilled water service followed nearly a century later in 1993. Since acquiring ...
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District cooling could be the solution we need to tackle extreme heat

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New Scientist Summary More than 77 million people in Europe enjoy district heating, where hot water is piped from a central plant to homes and buildings. The US has hundreds of these networks, mostly in multi-building campuses like universities, airports and business districts. But as both Europe and North America swelter through yet another heatwave this week, many are wondering whether the mirror image of that technology, pipe networks of chilled water, could be a better cooling option than air conditioning. Continue Reading #News #DistrictCooling
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Empower's 'Dubai-it' Journey: Extraordinary story driven by vision, ambition to become world's largest district cooling services provider

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Big News Network Summary Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation PJSC (Empower) highlighted that its operational performance and projects reflect the principles of the ‘Dubai-It’ approach launched by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai. Representing a distinguished Emirati success story, reflecting the UAE's vision and ambition to build cities of the future, the company has sustained a remarkable growth trajectory. Since commencing operations in 2004 with just two temporary district cooling plants and a contracted cooling capacity of approximately 5,400 refrigeration tons ...
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Johnson Controls Introduces AI Capacity Guide Unlocking Up to 97MW

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Thermal Control Update Summary A new absorption chiller blueprint enables data centres to convert waste heat into cooling, cutting cooling electricity demand by up to 44%. The modular design boosts computing capacity using existing power infrastructure, supports a PUE as low as 1.23, eliminates on-site water use, reduces cooling system CO₂ emissions by up to 43%, and accelerates AI data centre deployment from 100MW campuses to gigawatt-scale facilities. Johnson Controls launched its Absorption Chiller Reference Design Guide. The blueprint helps data centre operators convert the 57% of energy typically lost as waste heat from on-site power generation ...
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A New Chapter at Abbott Northwestern Hospital: Built with the Community, for the Community

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the alley newspaper Summary Care teams at Allina Health’s new Richard M. Schulze Surgical and Critical Care Center will welcome their first patients on August 29. This 620,000-square-foot facility is the centerpiece of the Abbott Northwestern Hospital campus revitalization project, which also included upgrades to 10th Avenue, an energy-efficient Central Utility Plant (CUP) and the Purple Ramp. The CUP replaces outdated 1950s-era equipment with newer, more efficient systems. As a combined heat and power facility, it captures heat produced during operation and reuses it within the hospital, reducing energy waste. The Central Utility Plant generates steam ...
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Unlocking Waste-to-Energy for Energy Security and Regional Growth

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POWER Summary Every day, the world throws away valuable material resources. As global waste generation surges, innovative waste-to-energy (WtE) technologies are emerging as a tool to recover materials that otherwise would be disposed of in landfills, dumpsites, or leaked into the environment, and provide a reliable source of energy globally. The United Nations Environment Programme estimates that annual municipal solid waste (MSW) generation will reach 3.8 billion tonnes by 2050, up from approximately 2.5 billion tonnes today. Europe’s experience is instructive. Hundreds of European facilities are woven into district heating networks, supplying combined ...
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Rehlko warns AI data centres need dynamic power checks

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Data Center News Summary Rehlko has published an eBook on power infrastructure for AI-driven data centres, outlining its view of how changing AI workloads are reshaping critical power requirements. Rehlko's central argument is that AI infrastructure planning now depends as much on dynamic behaviour as on nameplate capacity. In practice, that means operators must look beyond how much electricity a site can draw and focus more closely on how systems respond when demand changes constantly across computing clusters. Options highlighted include on-site gas generation, combined heat and power systems, battery energy storage, generator backup and modular ...
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Why Pittsburgh's hospitals and universities aren't waiting on the grid

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Pittsburgh Business Times Summary PJM Interconnection's latest capacity auction hit the regulatory price cap for the third year running. Without that cap, the price would have cleared near $555 per megawatt-day instead of $325. Even at the capped price, PJM still fell short of its reserve margin target for the second consecutive auction, the first time that shortfall has repeated back-to-back. That auction alone will add $16.4 billion to the region's electric bills, with roughly $6.3 billion tied to data center demand. And the increase is already showing up locally: Duquesne Light's default rate jumped about 15% this summer, and West Penn Power's rose 9%. ...
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Nationwide Boiler Announces Leadership Succession, Appoints Jim Lieskovan President

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Nationwide Boiler Summary Nationwide Boiler Inc., supplier of industrial rental boilers, new and used in-stock package boilers, emissions control equipment and custom PLC control systems, is pleased to announce a planned leadership transition designed to ensure continuity and long-term stability. Current VP of Sales, Jim Lieskovan, has been appointed President effective August 1, 2026, and Larry Day will continue in his role as CEO through his retirement in January 2027. Serving as Nationwide Boiler’s President and CEO since 2016, Larry has played a key role in guiding the company’s growth, strengthening its market position, and advancing Nationwide Boiler’s ...
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