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Empower Continues Expanding Dubai’s Future-Ready District Cooling Infrastructure

By District Energy posted 2 hours ago
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Government of Dubai Summary Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation PJSC (Empower), the world's largest district cooling services provider, reaffirmed its pivotal role in strengthening Dubai’s position as a global benchmark for advanced district cooling infrastructure through the expansion of its plants and networks across key locations. These efforts support the transition toward greater energy efficiency and reducing pressure on electricity networks, in line with the city’s rapid urban and population growth. Speaking during the opening remarks of a recent webinar organized by the United Nations Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Cool Coalition under ...
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Canada’s First Liquid-Cooled Interconnection Hub Arrives at Telehouse Canada

By District Energy posted 4 hours ago
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Telecom Review Summary Telehouse Canada has announced the completion of a major infrastructure upgrade designed to support the next generation of AI ‑driven workloads. By introducing direct liquid‑to‑chip technology, Telehouse enables high‑density AI inference deployments within its interconnection‑rich downtown Toronto data center environments, reinforcing the company’s leadership in delivering resilient, future‑ready facilities that power Canada’s digital transformation and support the next wave of innovation. Liquid cooling is more thermally conductive than air, allowing Telehouse Canada to remove up to 80% of heat directly from high-power server ...
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Caldwell Energy Celebrates Grand Opening of New State-of-the-Art Facility for Turbine Inlet Cooling Technologies

By District Energy posted 22 hours ago
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Caldwell Summary Caldwell Energy , a leading provider of innovative turbine inlet cooling and thermal energy storage solutions for the power generation industry, is proud to announce the grand opening of its new state-of-the-art facility in Shelbyville, Kentucky. This milestone marks a significant expansion of the company’s operational footprint and reinforces its commitment to advancing gas turbine performance technologies worldwide. The grand opening celebration will take place on May 22, 2026, bringing together company leadership, employees, local officials, customers, and community partners to commemorate the completion ...
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JCI completes Danish heat pump factory expansion

By District Energy posted 22 hours ago
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Cooling Post Summary Johnson Controls has completed the expansion of its manufacturing facility in Holme, Denmark, to meet growing demand for high-capacity heat pumps across Europe. With the factory operating on 100% green energy, the expansion includes an additional 2,300m 2 of production space and an 1,800m 2 customer experience and test centre, compliant with the EN 14511 testing standard. Together, these additions strengthen Johnson Controls ability to design, build and validate high-capacity heat pumps for district heating, public infrastructure and industrial applications, including high‑stakes environments from research campuses and life‑science ...
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New Project To Explore Whether Taranaki’s Old Petroleum Wells Could Heat Its Energy Future

By District Energy posted 22 hours ago
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Business Scoop Summary Ara Ake, New Zealand’s energy innovation centre, is leading and funding a project exploring whether hundreds of suspended and shut-in petroleum wells in the Taranaki region could be repurposed as practical, cost-effective and low-emission heat sources for industry, buildings and communities, before they are permanently abandoned. “Industrial heat users need reliable, affordable alternatives to oil, gas and coal, and geoheat is uniquely placed to help deliver that. We don’t yet know if developing geoheat using Taranaki’s petroleum wells, rather than drilling new ones is commercially viable, but finding that out is exactly what Ara ...
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Carrier invests €12 million in next-generation HVAC testing facility

By District Energy posted 22 hours ago
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Airah Summary The company is expanding its research and development (R&D) capacity for high-performance cooling and heating technologies aimed at data centres, industry and large commercial buildings. With concentrated growth of data centres in European hubs expected to add 13 GW of new supply by 2030, the new facility will strengthen the company’s industrial and R&D capabilities. “The combination of higher test capacity and advanced environmental control let us validate performance with zero tolerance, bring solutions to market faster and give customers the confidence to move ahead on high-efficiency cooling and heating for data centres, industry ...
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Unleashing Tribal Energy Development

By District Energy posted 23 hours ago
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Closing: July 24, 2026 DE-FOA-0003548: Unleashing Tribal Energy Development Under this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), the DOE Office of Indian Energy Policy and Programs is soliciting applications to advance affordable, reliable, and secure energy development of Tribal energy resources for the benefit of Tribes and their members. Projects funded under this NOFO are expected to advance Tribal sovereignty through Tribal energy development, efficiency, and use. Projects under Topic Area 1 are expected to serve the electric loads and support the energy needs of Tribes at the scale of a Tribal community or communities. These projects entail ...
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Could a sustainable energy option have been lying beneath Philly’s sidewalks for a century?

By District Energy posted 23 hours ago
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Grid Philly Summary Tucked into a still corner of Grays Ferry, a block-spanning brick building with towering stacks overlooks the river and its walking trail. Thick steel pipes snake around the compound, carrying water and gas to tanks and boilers. The air thrums with the sound of machinery hard at work turning water into steam. This is the Vicinity Energy Schuylkill plant, and it’s what’s known as a combined heat and power plant. Giant boilers within combust fuel to spin turbines that generate electricity. The excess heat from that process is then used to create high-pressure steam that gets funneled out to customers through the “steam loop,” a 41-mile ...
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New Macalester residence hall to bring clean energy innovation to a dense urban setting

By District Energy posted yesterday
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Star Tribune Summary Macalester’s new front door also will aid in the college’s effort to decarbonize its campus by 2050. It will be the first building on campus that will use geothermal heating and cooling. After Macalester finishes construction of the residence hall, the next step will be to expand the geothermal energy system to serve all Macalester buildings north of Grand Avenue, Schwichtenberg said. A geothermal system that serves multiple buildings, known as a thermal energy network, can transfer heat between buildings. One building’s waste heat, which would ordinarily be released into the environment, can be sent to another building in the network. ...
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Surrey council OKs $5.8M contract for heat downtown

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North Delta Reporter Summary Surrey council awarded a $5,785,259.76 contract to SHARC Energy to supply, and maintain for one year, three new district energy sewer heat recovery units for the city’s new facility. A new facility is proposed to connect to a Metro Vancouver sewer main and extract thermal energy from the sewage by way of an integrated heat exchanger and screening process. The facility is expected to supply more than 50 per cent of downtown’s yearly heating demand, Neuman added, “significantly reducing reliance on natural gas” and supporting “future opportunities” for cooling and heat recovery. Continue Reading #MemberNewsIDEA ...
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Canada's Telus to expand Kamloops data center, lease two new sites in Vancouver

By District Energy posted yesterday
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DCD Summary Telus is to deploy AI hardware at two new data centers in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Canadian telco this week announced it was working with the Canadian Government on a ‘Sovereign AI Factory’ cluster under the federal Enabling Large-Scale Sovereign AI Data Centres initiative. "This will serve a rapidly growing ecosystem of Canadian businesses, entrepreneurs, startups, researchers, public institutions, and government organizations that require world-class AI compute without sending their data, intellectual property, and competitive advantage outside Canadian borders.” Entwistle said the company aims to scale its infrastructure to more ...
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Warm homes, lower bills, stronger EU: the power of citizen-led energy networks

By District Energy posted yesterday
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Enlit Summary Heating and cooling account for almost half of the EU’s energy use, making it a priority to ensure systems are greener and cheaper. Efficient district heating and cooling networks powered by clean sources replace individual heating systems, reducing maintenance and lowering bills. As change starts in cities, citizen engagement is essential. Community energy initiatives foster social acceptance, co-ownership and long-term commitment, making networks more sustainable and resilient.  That is why local, national and EU authorities must work together. The Energy Efficiency Directive requires cities with more than 45,000 inhabitants to prepare ...
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Just chill: Cooling innovations in Nordic data centers setting new sustainability standards

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w.media Summary The Nordic region has become one of the world’s most important locations for new data center construction. A defining feature of Nordic data centers is what happens to heat once it is removed from servers. Instead of being released into the atmosphere, many facilities capture the warm water generated by cooling systems and send it into municipal heating networks. For example, Equinix operates facilities in Espoo, Finland whose cooling systems recover heat from servers and transfer it to the regional district heating grid. The recovered heat around four megawatts in the initial phase can supply enough energy to warm roughly 2,000 homes ...
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Telehouse deploys liquid cooling at Toronto data centers in Canada

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DCD Summary Telehouse is deploying liquid cooling in its Canadian data centers in Toronto. KDDI’s Telehouse Canada this week announced it has introduced direct liquid‑to‑chip technology at its downtown Toronto data center environments. The excess heat from liquid-cooled equipment is set to be transferred to Enwave’s closed-loop district energy system, where it is captured and repurposed through a fully isolated process to help heat Toronto’s municipal drinking water. Continue Reading #MemberNewsIDEA #District Heating #Enwave #DistrictEnergy #DataCenter
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The Cooling Technologies Being Built for Data Centers Could Transform Commercial Buildings

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propmodo Summary Most people think of data centers as buildings. They are, technically, but they are more usefully understood as heat machines. Every computation generates heat. Every server rack in a modern AI data center generates heat at a density that would have been considered extraordinary just a few years ago. Cooling already accounts for about 40% of total data center energy use, which means that improving thermal management is one of the highest-leverage levers available for reducing both operating costs and environmental impact. Germany’s new Energy Efficiency Act requires that starting July 2026, new data centers must prove they are utilizing ...
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District cooling as a game-changing climate solution

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The Hindu Business Line Summary As temperatures shatter records across Indian cities, the answer to the cooling crisis may lie not in more air-conditioners, but in fewer of them. In the summer of 2024, Rajasthan recorded temperatures exceeding 50°C. Delhi is right now in the middle of a heat wave. A super El Nino is expected to affect the South-West monsoon with resultant heat impacts this year Perhaps it’s time to look at District Cooling Systems (DCSs) as a potential solution. Continue Reading #News #DistrictCooling
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Unison Energy CEO on Data Centers Turning to On-Site Power

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Data Center Knowledge Summary Unison Energy, a Connecticut-based Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) developer backed by Tiger Infrastructure Partners, is positioning itself at the center of the power crunch facing AI infrastructure. The company builds, owns, and operates behind-the-meter generation systems – primarily natural gas-based combined heat and power (CHP) and microgrids – for large energy users across North America. On-site power is moving from a workaround to a default design choice. US data centers used about 176 TWh in 2023 (4.4% of total electricity demand) and could reach 325-580 TWh by 2028 – up to 12% of US load – according to the US Department ...
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Munich’s New 50-Meter Thermal Storage Tank Connects to District Heating Network

By District Energy posted yesterday
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Why So Germany? Summary The Stadtwerke München (SWM) has successfully brought its 50-meter-high thermal storage tank at the Süd energy site online. Following two and a half years of construction, the impressive structure, resembling a giant thermos, began feeding into the district heating network in April. The company officially announced the commissioning on May 11, 2026, highlighting its significance for the city’s energy future. The facility is currently undergoing optimization during its trial operation and is already connected to the inner-city and Perlach district heating networks. Preparations are also underway for its connection to the Sendling ...
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Boston Explores Heat Pumps for District Heating and Cooling Using Local Waterways

By District Energy posted yesterday
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Natural Refrigerants Summary Boston is exploring the use of heat pumps to decarbonize its district heating and cooling network by sourcing thermal energy from local waterways, including Boston Harbor, the Fort Point Channel and the Charles and Mystic Rivers, as well as the bedrock beneath the rivers. “It’s been demonstrated and proven on campuses and for suburban areas, but we haven’t investigated this technology deeply for dense urban areas like the city of Boston,” Peter McPhee, Senior Director for Building Decarbonization at MassCEC, told the trade magazine ENR East . “And we haven’t looked into the feasibility yet of utilizing water resources ...
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Control Room Operator

By District Energy posted 3 days ago
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Control Room Operator (2 ND Class Engineer) Cambridge, MA Full Time CONTROL ROOM OPERATOR (2ND Class Engineer), Facilities – Central Utilities Plant (CUP), is responsible for monitoring, operating and control of the CUP facilities from the distributed control system (DCS) and performs related duties throughout the facilities; ensures all CUP equipment is operated within design parameters and in full compliance with laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; conducts plant startups and shutdowns and participates in the review of problems, incidents, and unusual events; performs routine operational tests and ...
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