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Tabreed’s shareholders greenlight highest dividends for 2022

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Zawya Summary The shareholders of National Central Cooling Company (Tabreed) approved a cash dividend distribution of 13.50 fils per share for 2022, according to a press release. The annual general meeting (AGM) greenlighted the cash dividends, which mark the highest dividend amount in the company’s 25-year history, on 20 March 2023. Khaled Abdullah Al Qubaisi, Chairman of Tabreed, commented: “On the back of an exceptional year, we are delighted to issue a record dividend payment, unlocking further value for our shareholders while we continue to benefit people, societies and the environment with our pioneering, reliable, and sustainable solutions.” ...
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Setting the blueprint for green workplaces in the years to come

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The Scotsman Summary Scotland is rapidly approaching its net zero deadline of 2045. When these sorts of targets are set by the government they can seem so far away in the future. To organisations and businesses who are just trying to survive, they can seem irrelevant to the here and now. But in terms of investment, infrastructure, and property, 2045 is just around the corner and must be at the forefront of organisational thinking. At Clyde Gateway, Scotland’s first Green Regeneration Innovation District, offices are becoming more sustainable with the installation of a 5th generation district heating and cooling system. This cutting-edge technology allows ...
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SSE powers London’s green home revolution with 5k retrofits

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Energy Live News Summary SSE Energy Solutions has partnered with Berkeley Homes to decarbonise the heat network for 5,000 London homes through a large scale retrofit project. The project will use an air source heat pump system, which will be installed in Wellington Park and connected to the existing district heating network pipes. The work is set to commence in 2025 and will pave the way for decarbonisation work across SSE’s expanding UK heat networks. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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Industrial Waste Heat Could Power Millions of Homes in Europe

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Euractiv Summary The European institutions have therefore a fundamental role in designing this decade and the trajectory through 2050 by undertaking a serious discussion on the future of the European economic and social architecture, also evaluating which measures can be implemented to combine the clean energy transition project with a long-term industrial strategy. Waste heat recovery represents a leading technology to harness such an important energy source, generating energy (electricity and heat) without emissions of additional CO2 and, consequently, it should be treated as a fully renewable source. Waste heat can, in fact, be used either directly ...
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Cornell Aims to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2035. Here’s How.

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Environment + Energy Leader Summary Cornell University is taking a multifaceted approach to achieving carbon neutrality by 2035. The University, with a focus on reducing energy consumption, investing in renewable energy, promoting sustainable transportation, and leveraging its research and education programs to advance sustainability that aligns with the University’s Quadruple Bottom Line Sustainability Framework. The greenest energy, and the best for reducing climate change impacts, is the energy we never use. Cornell University has seen flat energy use since 2000 as a result of energy conservation efforts, in spite of campus square footage growing ...
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Quebec announces 162 million to recover thermal waste

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Global News Summary (Montreal) Quebec announces funding of 162 million to valorize thermal discharges from large industrial facilities. The government thus wishes to encourage the implementation of projects that will reduce energy waste and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the heating of large buildings. Environment Minister Benoit Charette took advantage of his visit to Americana, an environmental forum in Montreal, to make the announcement. Several industrial facilities produce large thermal releases to the environment. This heat is neither recovered nor valorized and “the program will offer financial assistance aimed at supporting the establishment ...
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New York must chart new course for gas utilities to hit climate targets

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Canary Media Summary If New York wants to meet its climate goals, the state’s gas utilities can’t stick to business as usual. Nor can they keep investing billions of dollars in maintaining and expanding the nearly 50 , 000 miles of gas pipeline they’ve laid over the course of the past half-century. Instead, state regulators have to start acting now to force the nearly 150 -year-old industry to undergo a ​ “ managed, phased transition” to a new carbon-free path — or the consequences could be catastrophic. That’s the key takeaway of the Future of Gas in New York State report released last week by the nonprofit Building Decarbonization ...
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NEA launches SMR Dashboard to track small nuclear reactor development

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Balkan Green Energy News Summary Small modular reactors (SMRs) have the potential to reshape the energy market and help the world reach net zero emissions by 2050, but also contribute to staying at net zero beyond mid-century. To help policymakers around the globe understand and take advantage of this innovative nuclear power technology, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has launched the SMR Dashboard, which tracks progress in the development and commercialization of SMRs. Small modular nuclear reactors can support decarbonization by replacing fossil fuels in electricity generation and heat and power cogeneration for heavy industries and district heating, ...
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Dirt cheap backup: Why Finland’s installation of the world’s 1st sand battery may be a game-changer

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Down to Earth Summary Finland has installed the world’s first sand battery that can store heat from renewable energy sources for months. The Finnish developers believe that the battery, made of sand collected from construction sites, can solve the problem of round-the-year energy supply, a known limitation of renewable energy sources that can be harnessed intermittently. This is a major breakthrough, as heat alone accounts for half of the world’s energy use, followed by transport (30 per cent) and electricity (20 per cent), as per intergovernmental organisation International Energy Agency (IEA). Currently, 80 per cent of the world’s energy comes from dirty ...
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Hynfra and Amarenco MENA form strategic partnership to produce hydrogen and ammonia in MENA region

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Green Car Congress Summary Poland-based Hynfra has signed a framework cooperation agreement with Amarenco MENA, a major developer of renewable energy projects in the Middle East and North Africa and part of Amarenco Group. The strategic partnership is aimed at building infrastructure for the production of hydrogen and its derivatives, primarily ammonia, using electrolysis powered by clean energy resources. Hynfra sees the possibility of using Tsubame’s solution in e.g. distributed small renewable hydrogen facilities, e.g. in the municipal and district heating sector. Continue Reading #News #DistrictHeating
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EU Disbursed €4 Billion for Green Energy Transition in Eight Countries

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Mercom Summary The European Union’s ( EU ) Modernisation Fund disbursed €4.11 billion (~$4.36 billion) this year for 61 projects in eight countries to modernize energy systems, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and improve energy efficiency. These investments support the EU’s 2030 climate and energy targets and accelerate the green transition. The Fund disbursed €119.8 million (~$127.16) to Croatia, €1.34 billion (~$1.42 billion) to the Czech Republic, €62.4 million (~$66.23 million) to Estonia, €74.3 million (~$78.87 million) to Hungary, €85 million (~$90.22 million) to Lithuania, and €643.2 million (~$682.72 million) to Poland. Romania received €1.39 ...
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Sargent & Lundy Participates in EPRI Action Plan to Lower Carbon Emissions

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Press Release Summary Sargent & Lundy is one of more than 20 members of the Nuclear in District Energy Applications (NuIDEA) Initiative that provided insight and experience in reliable nuclear energy solutions to the initiative’s recently released three-year action plan . The NuIDEA Initiative was launched in 2022 by the Electric Power Research Institute, an independent nonprofit organization for energy research, development, and deployment. It is administered by a collaboration of leading organizations in the energy industry as well as organizations across the higher education and healthcare markets. The detailed action plan is the roadmap describing ...
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How Cape Town’s V&A Waterfront is racing to protect the planet

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The Ocean Race Summary The harbour, which is the gateway for teams to the mighty Southern Ocean leg, has become a pioneer on the continent for its efforts to support the environment, which includes energy efficiency, water savings, recycling and providing food for the local community. Since 2010 the V&A Waterfront has significantly reduced its carbon emissions through a range of tactics, including solar panels on the roofs of many of its buildings and electric car charging points, while water - a precious commodity in South Africa - has been sourced by alternative supplies, such as a district cooling plant that uses seawater to cool buildings, and alternate ...
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Filinvest City as one of the Philippines’ pioneers of sustainability

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Inquirer.net Summary Filinvest City is touted as the archetype of a sustainable city. It has proven to be well ahead of its time as it was conceived, visualized, and designed in the 90s, before developers gave much thought in sustainability and being green Filinvest City is home to the country’s most extensive district cooling system, a more efficient way of providing air conditioning in buildings that has since resulted in 40 percent energy cost savings. There are 2.8 MWp solar panels also on the rooftop of Festival Mall supplying about 28 percent of the mall’s peak demand and saving close to 41,000 tons of emissions, equivalent to removing ...
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TNB partners Sunway to expand sustainable energy solutions

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Edge Prop Summary Tenaga Nasional Bhd (TNB) and Sunway Group have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on March 17 to drive both companies’ environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) agenda together. “Areas of potential collaboration include data centre development, the deployment of solar photovoltaic, district cooling, and electric vehicle infrastructure in Sunway’s real estate, renewable energy production, energy-related digital solutions, workforce capability, and academic research and development,” they said. Continue Reading #News #DistrictCooling
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Ørsted plans power-to-X e-methanol plant to serve shipping market

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Windpower Monthly Summary The plant will combine green hydrogen and CO2 from a combined heat and power station to produce e-methanol. The ‘FlagshipONE’ facility will use renewable electricity to produce green hydrogen and a nearby biomass-fired combined heat and power station to produce biogenic carbon dioxide. The carbon-neutral fuel can be stored and used in ‘dual-fuel’ ships to help decarbonise international maritime transport, which accounts for 3% of global carbon emissions. The plant, to be located in Örnsköldsvik, northeastern Sweden, could produce up to 50,000t of e-methanol per year from 2025, and require up to 470GWh of renewable electricity ...
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‘Living laboratories for climate change’: Miami participates in inaugural White House campus sustainability forum

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The Miami Student Summary When Miami University started making its campus more energy efficient in 2012 , it was to save money in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Ten years later, these measures have evolved into an organized strategy for decarbonization that has established Miami as a leader in campus sustainability. In light of Miami’s sustainability achievements, two staff members and two students were invited to represent Miami in the White House forum on campus and community-scale climate change solutions on March 8. One of the reasons Miami was chosen for the conference was because of its track record in improving energy efficiency ...
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Empower signs district cooling services agreement with Sobha Realty

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Facilities Management Summary Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) signed an agreement with Sobha Realty, one of UAE’s leading premium real estate developers, to provide environmentally district cooling services to the developer’s mixed-use projects, most notably the Sobha Hartland master community with a capacity of 17,000 refrigeration tons (RT). As part of the agreement between the two companies, Sobha Hartland will join Empower’s extensive district cooling portfolio and Empower will provide world-class district cooling services across eight buildings of Sobha Hartland project by extending the distribution network from company’s Meydan ...
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‘The climate time-bomb is ticking’: The world is running out of time to avoid catastrophe, new UN report warns

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CNN Summary The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating with international climate goals set to slip out of reach unless immediate and radical action is taken, according to a new UN-backed report. “The climate time-bomb is ticking,” said António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in a statement to mark the launch of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s synthesis report on Monday. “Humanity is on thin ice – and that ice is melting fast,” he added. The report draws on the findings of hundreds of scientists to provide a comprehensive assessment of how the climate crisis is unfolding. It called ...
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Pumping Heat a Mile Underground Is Helping One City Cut Carbon

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Bloomberg Summary Five miles east of the German port city of Hamburg lies Tiefstack, a massive coal power plant that local officials want to shut down. While replacing its output will require a patchwork of smaller solutions, one piece is warming water with so-called waste heat from steel mills and aluminum foundries and storing it almost a mile underground. “The idea has been around since the thermos,” says Kirsten Fust, chief engineer at Energiewerke Hamburg, the local power utility. The experimental technology, called aquifer thermal energy storage, pumps hot water 1,300 meters below the surface, then brings it back up for use in municipal systems known ...
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