District Cooling in the News


District Cooling is making a difference to communities and countries around the world. Below are links to recent news items featuring district cooling as a solution, enjoy these success stories!.

Published: 8/5/2026 2:24:03 PM
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 ...
Published: 8/5/2026 1:26:42 PM
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 ...
Published: 8/5/2026 1:20:30 PM
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 ...
Published: 8/5/2026 1:16:30 PM
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 ...
Published: 8/5/2026 1:08:15 PM
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 ...