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Cascade, Idaho exploring geothermal district heating and cooling

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Think GeoEnergy Summary The city of Cascade, Idaho is currently conducting a feasibility study on the use of geothermal for district heating and cooling, potentially lowering energy costs by 66% for homes and businesses connected to the geothermal system. The “Geothermal Heating and Cooling District Planning Project” aims to investigate the feasibility of a heating and cooling district, determine the footprint and design for the district, identify potential users, identify workforce development and training needs related to the district, develop a financial plan/cost estimate, and estimate the costs and benefits for interested customers. The project ...
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Croatia sets EUR 25 million in incentives for energy poor households

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Balkan Green Energy News Summary Croatia has earmarked EUR 25 million for households at risk of energy poverty. They will use the funds for the energy renovation. The subsidies for households at risk of energy poverty are part of a EUR 652 million package for 2025 launched by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Green Transition and the Environmental Protection and Energy Efficiency Fund (EPEEF or FZOEU). The incentives will be used for renewable energy sources, decarbonization of the district heating system and road traffic, and waste management. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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France: Rennes invests EUR156mn in its district heating network

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energy news Summary Rennes Métropole has signed a thirteen-year concession agreement with ENGIE Solutions to develop and operate an urban district heating network in the southern part of the city, powered exclusively by renewable and recovered energy sources. The project will extend the existing network to 78 kilometres, with 32 kilometres to be newly built. The total investment amounts to EUR156mn ($167mn), with a planned capacity equivalent to 47,000 connected households. Two new biomass heating plants will be built by 2028: a 23-megawatt facility in Blosne, including a 3,000 m³ hydrostorage tank, and a 21-megawatt plant in Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande. ...
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Vicinity’s Bill DiCroce will leave a big legacy — in the pipes that feed Boston’s buildings

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Boston Globe Summary Bill DiCroce will be remembered fondly by his family, by his roughly 500 colleagues at the energy company he led, and by other leaders in his industry. But his most enduring legacy might end up circulating in the pipes under the streets of Boston and Cambridge. The Vicinity Energy executive chairman, who died from cancer on April 13 at the age of 62, was determined to make his company a leader in efforts to decarbonize the heating and cooling systems for big urban buildings. Vicinity primarily uses natural gas to create the steam, hot water, and chilled water that heats and cools many of the office towers, colleges, ...
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Ottawa Community Housing development receives $57.7 million in HAF funding

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Link 2 Build Summary The City of Ottawa last month announced a $57.7 million investment in Ottawa Community Housing’s Gladstone Village development. This funding is part of the broader $176.3 million that was allocated to the City of Ottawa through the Housing Accelerator Fund, a federal initiative aimed at supporting the creation of affordable housing across the country. The buildings will be built to Passive Housing Standards, while Gladstone Village itself is set to be district energy ready. It will include high-efficiency heating, cooling and wastewater heat recovery systems. Continue Reading #News #DistrictEnergy
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Innovative cleaning technology boosts cooling efficiency at UK

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University of Kentucky Summary Energy efficiency is a high priority for University of Kentucky Facilities Management and has been for many years. This is evident in a 20% reduction in the amount of energy used per square foot since 2016. And recently, the process of cooling campus buildings just became more efficient. Utilities and Energy Management, a unit in Facilities Management, installed new chiller tube cleaning technology on two chillers at the Central Utility Plant. This new technology will increase the resiliency of the campus’ cooling system and dramatically reduce the labor required to keep the chillers operating while saving thousands in ...
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Berlin Data Center Waste Heat to Power New Urban District

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E+E Leader Summary NTT DATA has announced an initiative to leverage waste heat from its Berlin 1 Data Center in Spandau, providing sustainable heating to a major urban development project. In collaboration with energy providers ENGIE Deutschland and GASAG Solution Plus, the data center’s excess heat will be repurposed to support “ Das Neue Gartenfeld ”—a 76-acre, mixed-use district designed to accommodate more than 10,000 residents and 200 businesses. The Berlin-based initiative is positioned as one of Germany’s largest waste heat recovery efforts from existing data centers, demonstrating a scalable model for integrating digital infrastructure ...
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Data Center World 2025: VoltaGrid on Power, Microgrids, and Energy Resilience

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Data Center Knowledge Summary Power demand is soaring – and the data center industry is right at the center of the conversation. At the Data Center Knowledge News Desk during Data Center World 2025 in Washington, D.C., we spoke with Dave Bell, vice president of data center and microgrid development at VoltaGrid. Dave discussed how the traditional utility model is struggling to keep pace with rising energy needs, and why microgrids are gaining traction as a solution. He also outlined how firm energy microgrids can help ensure resilience, flexibility, and cleaner energy delivery for both data centers and industrial sites. Continue ...
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Let’s not panic about AI’s energy use just yet

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Vox Summary According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), computing and storing data accounts for somewhere between 1 and 1.5 percent of global electricity demand at the moment. Amid all this uncertainty about the future, there are still paths that could keep AI’s expansion aligned with efforts to limit climate change. Tech companies need to continue pulling on the efficiency lever. These sectors also have big opportunities to reduce carbon emissions in the supply chains for these devices, and in the infrastructure for data centers . Deploying vastly more clean energy is essential. Continue Reading #News #DataCenter
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Energy from seawater: construction of a district heating network on the French Coast

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gwf Summary According to a study by the University of Aalborg, district heating networks will need to supply around 48 percent of the EU’s heat demand by 2050 in order to meet the targets of the Paris Agreement. Heat suppliers in such networks often include fired power plants and combined heat and power units. However, recovering energy from lake or seawater has not been considered so often so far. These resources have an enormous potential for clean, local, and inexhaustible energy. How large a role lake, river, and seawater will play in the expansion of Europe’s district heating networks thus remains to be seen. What is certain, however, is that ...
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Doosan Group Has Joined Hands with Southern Power to Build an Eco-Friendly Power Plant

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FCW Summary Three-way MOU, including Doosan Efficiency, will develop 40MW cogeneration technology Doosan Fuel Cell announced on the 21st that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Korea Southern Power's Shinsejongbit Dream Headquarters and Doosan Energy's "energy resource flexibility technology cooperation" at the Shinsejongbit Dream Headquarters in Sejong City on the 17th. This agreement is designed to improve the overall efficiency of the power plant and convert it into an eco-friendly power plant by combining the technologies and products owned by Doosan Fuel Cell and Doosan Energy at the Shinsejong Bit Dream headquarters ...
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Turkey aims to become major lithium producer with its geothermal wells

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Balkan Green Energy News Summary Turkey is using only 10% of its geothermal potential, according to Chairman of the Geothermal Power Plant Investors Association (JESDER) Ufuk Şentürk. He said existing wells alone could open the way for the country to become one of the world’s major producers of lithium. Şentürk pointed out that Turkey hosts 65 geothermal power plants of 1.74 GW overall. They generated 11.2 TWh in 2024 of the total 350 TWh. Geothermal energy currently heats 7,000 hectares of greenhouses in Turkey and 160,000 homes, Şentürk said. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is providing incentives for greenhouse zones of 2,800 hectares in total. ...
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Geothermal’s Next Evolution: Powered by Oil and Gas Know-How

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Energies Media Summary The U.S. is facing a mounting energy challenge. Electricity demand is set to double by 2050, driven by population growth, industrial electrification, and the clean energy transition. Yet, the existing grid is already strained, and electricity prices are continuing to rise. The country needs more reliable, cost-effective power – and fast. Geothermal energy offers a solution: secure, scalable, and baseload power with the potential to supply 90 GW by 2050. But today, geothermal energy meets less than 1% of global demand. What’s missing? The expertise to unlock it at scale. Oil and gas professionals, who have spent decades mastering subsurface ...
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Heat seeking

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CBC News Summary Why this Canadian company is using technology developed in the heart of the Canadian oilpatch to build a giant underground radiator in Bavaria Newfoundlander Steve Nowe has spent the bulk of his career as an international nomad in the oil and gas industry, chasing jobs across nearly 50 different countries. The latest gig has plunked him down in the middle of a Bavarian forest — unusual given Germany isn’t exactly known for its oil and gas industry. But this time around, he’s not looking for fossil fuels. Instead, he’s building a massive geothermal system, a type of renewable power project that harnesses heat from below ...
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NANO Nuclear and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Receive Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Fuel Qualification Methodology Approval for KRONOS MMR™ Energy System

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Globe Newswire Summary NANO Nuclear Energy Inc. (NASDAQ: NNE) (“NANO Nuclear” or “the Company”), a leading advanced nuclear energy and technology company focused on developing clean energy solutions, is pleased to announce that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has issued its final Safety Evaluation (SE) approving the Fuel Qualification Methodology Topical Report (FQM TR) for the advanced fuel design to be used in the NANO Nuclear’s stationary KRONOS MMR™ Energy System. This important regulatory milestone marks the successful culmination of a rigorous review process and represents a major step toward deployment of the KRONOS reactor ...
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Swarthmore College - Director, Sustainable Energy Services

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Swarthmore College Director, Sustainable Energy Services Job no: 495604 Work type: Full Time Location: Swarthmore Categories: Staff, Salary (Exempt), On Campus For more information Apply now Swarthmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college located in the suburbs of Philadelphia, whose mission combines academic rigor with social responsibility. Swarthmore has a strong institutional commitment to inclusive excellence and nondiscrimination in its educational program and employment practices and encourages candidates who will further advance the goal of fostering a diverse and inclusive community. As one of the nation’s ...
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Increasing Access to Sustainable Technology: How Ever-Green Energy is Bringing an Innovative Geothermal Energy System to St. Paul, Minnesota

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Augusta National Golf Course is famous for hosting The Masters every year; Albatros at Le Golf National is where the world watched Scottie Scheffler take home the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics. But despite the lack of presence of a PGA legend or an Olympic champion, what was formerly known as Hillcrest Golf Club in St. Paul, Minnesota, has also been in the spotlight over the last few months, but not for the reasons one may assume. Thanks to the partnership between master developer the Saint Paul Port Authority and Ever-Green Energy, what was once a watering hole for local St. Paul golf aficionados, is now home to a project that will advance ...
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We’re Flushing a Lot of Energy Down the Drain. Can We Capture It?

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Wall Street Journal Summary It took seven years, but Jocelyn Hittle finally got what she wanted: a heating and cooling system fueled by wastewater at Colorado State University’s new Spur campus in Denver. When Hittle finally moved into one of the buildings served by this system, the most surprising thing was how utterly unremarkable it felt. No unusual odors. No strange noises. Just the same comfortable indoor climate she’d experienced in conventional buildings throughout her career. “As an occupant of the building, everything feels exactly the same,” says Hittle, associate vice president at CSU for special projects and the ...
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Using campus as a classroom: Students explore UK’s energy infrastructure

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University of Kentucky Summary At the University of Kentucky, students have access to a dynamic living lab — an 800-acre campus with more than 20 million square feet of building space and all the infrastructure and operations of a small city. At the heart of this opportunity is Facilities Management. In addition to creating an environment where students can learn and excel, Facilities Management is also providing opportunities for students to engage directly with the systems that are essential to the university’s operations. This semester, a group of students focused on understanding the energy systems that heat, cool and power the university and this included ...
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University of Albany Launches $30M Decarb Project

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RMF Engineering Summary University of Albany, one of the four “university centers” of the state’s State University of New York (SUNY) system, recently embarked on a $30 million decarbonization project that will greatly reduce fossil fuel consumption. The project, which includes shutting down campus boilers during summer months, aligns with the collegiate network’s initiative to reduce the carbon footprints of all in-state facilities and meet goals outlined in the 2019 Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act (CLCPA). Since SUNY buildings represent 40% of state-owned buildings, the new initiative will accelerate the CLCPA’s plan of reducing almost ...
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