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  • Maryland Today Summary The University of Maryland will seek the state’s approval to replace the campus’ aging power, boiler and chiller plants and key portions of the thermal distribution system as part of a long-term plan to pursue sustainable, fossil ...

  • Making investments in clean energy can deliver economic and environmental benefits to nonprofits and other tax-exempt entities as well as the communities they serve. For example, energy costs are the second-highest operational expense for many nonprofits. ...

  • pv magazine Summary Researchers at Germany's Fraunhofer Research Institution for Energy Infrastructures and Geothermal Systems (IEG) investigated how solar thermal-assisted heat pumps or air sourced heat pumps powered by ground-mounted photovoltaics ...

  • The Hill Summary A new form of zero-carbon, on-demand energy could help bring stability to the grid with support on both sides of the aisle — if the diverse coalition now backing it can hold together despite clashing over politics and climate action. ...

  • MIT Technology Review Summary We need heat to make everything from steel bars to ketchup packets. Today, a whopping 20% of global energy demand goes to producing heat used in industry, and most of that heat is generated by burning fossil ...