11 News & Press Releases found
International District Energy Association (IDEA) News
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EIA: U.S. power sector carbon dioxide emissions fall below transportation sector emissions
A recent U.S. Energy Information Administration “Today in Energy” report finds that U.S. carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from the transportation sector reached 1,893 million metric tons (MMmt) from October 2015 through September ...
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Denmark’s largest coal plant fully converts to biomass
Diarmaid Williams reports in decentralized energy that the huge Avedøre combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Copenhagen, Denmark, once the country’s largest coal-fired station, is now completely fueled by biomass. ...
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Coal continues to give way to alternative fuels in powering University of Missouri campus
Tom Hellauer reports in The Missourian on the continuing trend toward wood and natural gas and away from coal as fuel for the University of Missouri (MU) Power Plant. The University of Missouri is a member of the International District Energy ...
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New CHP plant at a US Army installation opens in Aberdeen, MD
The U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has announced that the U.S. Army has just debuted a new Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Aberdeen, Maryland. The official opening ceremony took ...
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More details on one of the world’s largest biomass fired plants
Sawmilling South Africa confirms that the massive biomass-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant being built on the shores of Värtan, a strait in Sweden’s capital city, by Fortum Värme, a company jointly owned by Finnish ...
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Utilities cite 3 areas of fundamental interest in New York’s Distributed Energy System planning
Katherine Tweed reports in GreenTech Media that in response to the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Plan, New York utilities are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next five years to prepare for a distributed energy future and ...
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Jeff Zumwalt named University of Kentucky Director of Utilities and Energy Management
The University of Kentucky has named Jeff Zumwalt the director of utilities and energy management, a role that will report directly to the vice president for facilities management as part of implementation of a new energy management and conservation ...
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District energy seen as tool in energy transition
Elizabeth Dunbar reports in Minnesota Public News on the host role played by District Energy St. Paul in the 107th Annual Conference of the International District Energy Association (IDEA). The steam powered turbine at District Energy in St. Paul ...
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In Seattle waste heat is being recovered to heat buildings
David Ferris reports in EnergyWire on creative waste heat recovery in Seattle Wash.. First he updates the progress of Amazon’s new campus in the Denny Triangle, which will be heated by otherwise wasted heat generated by a data center in the ...
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Is this the ‘Non-Weird’ Future of Microgrids?
Elisa Wood writes in Microgrid Knowledge about the growing relationship that is developing between CHP-enabled district energy systems and the electric utilities. St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman addressing IDEA`s 107th Annual Conference in his ...
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DCO Energy acquires Midtown Thermal Plant assets in Atlantic City
DCO Energy, a member of the International District Energy Association (IDEA), has acquired thermal plant assets that provide heating, cooling and electricity to casinos along the legendary Atlantic City Boardwalk. The Midtown Thermal Energy ...