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Engineered Systems News Byline by Rob thornton, President & CEO, IDEA Summary Data centers are growing faster than the grid can keep pace with. Interconnection queues are long, transformer lead times are stretching to years, and communities are pushing read more

Idaho Capital Sun Summary The U.S. House approved a bill brought by Idaho Republican Rep. Russ Fulcher to increase geothermal energy leasing on public lands. Boise is home to the nation’s first read more

Helen Summary Helsinki has around 700,000 inhabitants, and nearly 90 percent of its building stock is connected to district heating. This makes the city particularly well suited for large-scale, combustion-free read more

Business Recorder Summary As the world accelerates toward cleaner and more reliable energy systems, geothermal energy is rapidly emerging as one of the most promising renewable resources of the future. read more

Helsinki Times Summary Microsoft has signed a preliminary agreement to acquire about 190 hectares of land in western Finland for a potential new datacentre development, extending the company's expansion read more

Clean Energy Wire Summary Germany should drop plans to increase the share of green gases in heating networks as part of a law reform to clean the sector , an alliance including energy companies read more

Think GeoEnergy Summary As cities and industries seek secure, affordable, and climate-neutral heat supplies, the upcoming IGC Invest Geothermal Conference in Frankfurt will place a strong focus read more

Sea News Summary There is great interest in Small Modular Reactors (SMR) for decarbonisation, to accelerate transition towards net zero emissions using nuclear power in the maritime industry – merchant read more

Balkan Green Energy News Summary Donna Gartland, the head of Dublin’s Energy Agency Codema, won in the Women in Energy category, rewarding her role in driving Ireland’s transition to low-carbon heat. read more

The Irish Times Summary To figure out the future, you sometimes need to look to the past. In the winter of 1973, as Europe shivered its way through the oil crisis, the Danish government was under read more

futr Summary It is an old idea, but one that is finding renewed relevance in Singapore. District cooling, a concept dating back more than a century, is gaining ground in the city-state as read more

PR Newswire Summary Valmet has received an order from Gren Tartu for the delivery of a flue gas condenser and heat pumps to the Tartu biomass heat and power plant in Estonia. The solution will increase read more

ENDS Summary Nottingham City Council has secured government funding to help inform the next phase of development for its district heating network, which is powered by the Eastcroft Depot energy-from-waste read more

Think GeoEnergy Summary Berlin’s district heating utility sees geothermal becoming a major renewable heat source, targeting 70 MWth by 2035 and up to 250 MWth by 2045. The district heating utility read more

Greentech Lead Summary South Korea’s plan to expand renewable energy capacity to 100 GW by 2030 could reduce the country’s annual fossil fuel power bill by nearly half, lowering costs to approximately read more

V2 Radio Summary More homes and businesses in Southampton could benefit from low-cost heating if the expansion of a renewable energy scheme goes ahead. Southampton Geothermal Heating Company (SGHC) read more