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Ever-Green Energy: Environmental, Social, and Governance

By District Energy posted 2 days ago
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Ever-Green Energy Summary Ever-Green's ESG commitment extends throughout our business and operations, building from the company values that guide our everyday and long-term actions. Environmental stewardship, operational excellence, and a commitment to transpar ency drive us to publish our ESG reports on a voluntary basis . This helps us assess company progre ss and growth opportunities while providin g important information for our customers, partners, and stakeholders. We formally adopted a company ESG Policy that serves as the foundation for future company actions and guides our annual reporting ...
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Cordia Names Maria DeMuro Chief Financial Officer

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Cordia Summary Cordia, a leading energy solutions company, announced that Maria DeMuro has been promoted to Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Since joining Cordia, Maria has been a key leader within the company’s finance department, helping to strengthen financial operations and providing strategic guidance across the business. Prior to joining Cordia, Maria built an accomplished career spanning Wall Street and corporate finance. She joined the company from Dominion Energy, where she held leadership roles in corporate development, finance, and investor relations, bringing extensive experience in financial strategy, planning, and business growth. “Maria has ...
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Frederick S. Moses Named Senior Business Development Leader at CHA

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CHA Summary CHA announces Frederick S. Moses has been named Vice President and Senior Business Development Leader. Frederick is based in Houston, TX, and will support our energy clients and expand CHA’s presence in the Southeast. Frederick has nearly 30 years of wide-ranging experience in environmental services, energy, and infrastructure. He is a hands-on sales leader with a proven record of managing and growing a strategic account portfolio across energy, utilities, power, technology, and infrastructure with a focus on go-to-market architecture and enterprise value creation. Frederick earned his MBA and Bachelor of Management from the University of ...
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Nationwide Boiler Strengthens Leadership Team with Internal Promotions

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Nationwide Boiler Incorporated Summary Nationwide Boiler Inc., known for temporary and permanent industrial boilers, emissions control, and custom controls solutions, is strengthening its leadership team with three internal promotions that reflect the company's commitment to employee development, technical excellence, and long-term growth. First, David Spain has been promoted from Director of Engineering to Vice President of Sales. A licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), David has been an integral part of Nationwide Boiler for 27 years and has played a significant role in many of the company's largest equipment sales, complex projects, and innovations. ...
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Johnson Controls Turns Waste Heat into AI Computing Power

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Energy Digital Summary Johnson Controls guide details how absorption chillers can convert generator waste heat into cooling, potentially worth US$18bn in added revenue Johnson Controls has released a reference design guide for data centre operators using on-site power generation. According to the company, these facilities lose 57% of the energy they produce as waste heat. The guide details how operators can redirect that heat into cooling systems rather than releasing it to the atmosphere. Johnson Controls calculates this approach could reduce cooling-related electrical demand by up to 44% and release capacity for compute workloads. ...
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Why Europe is looking to geothermal for baseload energy

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Spectra Summary Europe Looks to Geothermal for Reliable, Low-Carbon Energy — As electricity demand rises and Europe searches for reliable clean energy to complement wind and solar, geothermal is gaining renewed attention. Advances in enhanced and closed-loop geothermal technologies could dramatically expand where the resource can be deployed, with applications extending beyond electricity generation to district heating and cooling. The European Commission is specifically looking to geothermal as a potential replacement for natural gas in thermal networks, underscoring the increasingly important role district energy could play in turning underground heat into ...
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South Korea Treats District Heating as Essential Infrastructure in Massive New-Town Expansion

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The Chosun Daily Summary As South Korea accelerates development of its third-phase new towns—ultimately encompassing hundreds of thousands of homes—the government is emphasizing that district heating must be delivered alongside electricity, water, transportation and other essential infrastructure. It's a noteworthy example of district energy being incorporated into communities from the outset, rather than added building by building after development occur Read the Article #News #DistrictHeating
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"Dozens of Public Hearings... Data Centers Must Be Good Neighbors"

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Asia Business Daily Summary "The keywords for data centers should be being a good neighbor as a member of the local community. Data centers must also contribute to society." As communities grapple with the rapid expansion of AI data centers, Microsoft is demonstrating how district energy can help make these facilities better neighbors. Waste heat from new Microsoft data centers in Finland will be captured through a partnership with Fortum and used in district heating systems serving an estimated 250,000 people, potentially avoiding 400,000 metric tons of CO₂ annually. Microsoft says the project has also improved public and political perceptions of its data ...
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California Heatwave Exposes Soaring Cooling Costs As Global Energy Pressures Mount

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Streamline Feed Summary As California bakes under a prolonged late-summer heatwave, residents are facing a harsh financial reality: keeping cool is becoming prohibitively expensive. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers are bracing for record-breaking monthly statements as air conditioners run overtime to combat stultifying temperatures across the Bay Area and the Central Valley. The transition toward sustainable cooling solutions, such as district cooling networks and advanced phase-change materials, represents a multi-billion dollar investment opportunity for green tech firms. Ultimately, the data from California serves as an early warning system ...
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Built to Last: Introducing IDEA's 2026 John Gray Scholarship Class

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Every year at IDEA’s Annual Conference, we recognize a handful of students who are interested in advancing their education to prepare for a career in energy. The John Gray Scholarship, established in 2009, is named for a man who spent nearly five decades showing up for that moment himself, long before he had a scholarship named after him. John Gray joined IDEA's Board of Directors and served as the association's president in 1991, and for nearly 50 years he was a fixture at the Annual Conference, known for taking the podium to deliver the invocation with what colleagues called his trademark wit and humility. If you've picked up an apple pin at an IDEA ...
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The Polaris Project at Yukon University achieved the first Zero Carbon Building Design certification for the region

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Archinect Summary Yukon University’s Polaris Project has achieved Zero Carbon Building (ZCB) – Design Standard™ certification from the Canada Green Building Council (CAGBC), marking a major milestone for low-carbon science and learning infrastructure in Canada’s North. Designed and engineered by Stantec, Polaris is the first building in the Canadian Territories to be certified under the ZCB-Design Standard . Designed for a northern climate and the demands of advanced research and teaching, Polaris uses high-performance heat pumps with low-global-warming-potential refrigerants and an innovative heat recovery system that captures waste heat from the ...
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AirJoule Technologies and the Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers Announce Strategic Collaboration to Deploy Heat-To-Water Technology in Data Centers

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Business Insider Summary AirJoule Technologies Corporation (Nasdaq: AIRJ) (“AirJoule”) and The Net Zero Innovation Hub for Data Centers (the “Hub”) today announced a strategic collaboration to explore how waste heat from data center operations can be integrated into heat-to-water systems. As part of the strategic collaboration, AirJoule and the Hub will jointly assess how heat-to-water technology could contribute to future resource-efficient data center operations and heat reuse strategies. As the data center industry explores heat reuse models, there is growing interest in how waste heat can support broader resource recovery systems and create value beyond ...
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Application filed for data center campus near QTS' site in Northumberland, UK

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DCD Summary Another data center development is being proposed in the northeast of England. Application documents suggest the facility would use a closed-loop air-cooled conditioning plant to reduce overall water consumption. The company also aims to explore possible uses in the area for its waste heat. Continue Reading #News #DataCenter #WastetoEnergy
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Drilling starts for expansion of mine water heating network in Heerlen, Netherlands

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Think GeoEnergy Summary Drilling operations have started for a new heat source to augment the capacity of the Mijnwater heating network supplying the Parkstad region in the Netherlands. The new well is being drilled at Terhoevenderweg in Heerlen to a depth of 634 meters to access a former mine shaft containing warm groundwater. With increasing demand through the years, the Mijnwater project now continues to expand both the heating network and the supply capacity with the drilling of new wells. Continue Reading #News #GeothermalandGeo-Exchange #DistrictHeating
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EMICOOL unveils roadmap to achieve net zero operations by 2050

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WAM Summary Emirates District Cooling (Emicool) has unveiled a structured roadmap towards net zero operations by 2050. Developed through a data-driven and technically modelled, the roadmap establishes a clear decarbonisation pathway within Emicool's defined operational boundary. Dr. Adib El Moubadder, CEO of Emicool, said: "Sustainability is no longer an option for infrastructure companies, it is a responsibility. Our net zero roadmap reflects a long-term commitment to transforming district cooling into a cleaner, smarter and more efficient industry. We are proud to be leading this journey and contributing to the UAE's vision of building one of the world's ...
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Burns & McDonnell Names Travis Alexander New Austin Branch Manager

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Burns & McDonnell Summary Burns & McDonnell has named Travis Alexander the new branch manager of its Austin office. In this role, Alexander will lead the firm's continued growth in Central Texas while supporting clients across the region with integrated engineering, architecture, construction and consulting services. Throughout his career, Alexander has led multidisciplinary teams delivering behind-the-meter power projects and data center designs. He has also supported clients across the higher education, healthcare, aviation and district energy sectors. His experience includes utility infrastructure, central utility plants, combined heat ...
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Johnson Controls: How Waste Heat Unlocks 97MW of AI Capacity

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Data Centre Magazine Summary Johnson Controls has published an Absorption Chiller Reference Design Guide for data centre operators running on-site power generation, where 57% of the energy produced is typically lost as waste heat. The blueprint sets out how that heat can be routed into cooling rather than dissipated, cutting cooling-related electrical demand by up to 44% and freeing capacity for compute. In a 1GW AI Factory, the company calculates that those gains support up to 97MW of additional AI computing capacity with no increase in on-site generation. “Johnson Controls helps transform recovered heat into useful work through Combined Heat ...
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Seongnam Wins Feasibility Approval for District Heating Expansion

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Seoul Economic Daily Summary The city of Seongnam, in Gyeonggi Province, said on the 13th that a preliminary feasibility study for supplying district heating to its Sujeong and Jungwon districts had received final approval. The city applied for the study to the Ministry of Economy and Finance in September of last year. The approval recognized the project's viability in economic, policy and technical terms. As a result, follow-up steps to install a new heat supply facility and expand district heating are expected to speed up. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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The Korea District Heating Corporation to support energy efficiency improvement

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MK Summary The Korea District Heating Corporation will support energy efficiency improvement to reduce the burden of heating costs for the energy vulnerable. Hannan announced on the 13th that it signed an agreement on the "Energy Save 365" project to improve energy efficiency for the vulnerable at the Good Neighbors Hall with President Ha Dong-geun, Good Neighbors Global Impact CEO Hyun Jin-young, and Korea Energy Foundation Chairman Lee Tae-dong. Continue Reading #MemberNewsIDEA #KoreaDistrictHeatingCorporation #DistrictHeating
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Five years after Mělník III closure, Czechia is replacing coal with cleaner energy

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English Radio Summary At Mělník, the company is building what will be the largest combined-cycle gas-fired heat and power plant in Czechia. The remaining coal-fired units, Mělník I and Mělník II, are scheduled to be taken out of operation by 2030. The site is particularly important because of its role in district heating. It supplies heat to Prague, Mělník, Neratovice and a number of other municipalities, serving the equivalent of around 250,000 households as well as schools, hospitals and public institutions. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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