Central Heating News
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Santee Cooper Launches New Empower SmartRewards Demand Response Program
Santee Cooper has launched its new Empower Demand Response Program that rewards customers for taking an active role in helping to manage periods of high demand on the electric system.With this new program, called SmartRewards, customers can earn bill credits for helping Santee Cooper reduce electricity use during periods of high electric demand or during times when system resources are ...
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Siemens and Macquarie
Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG), Siemens' Smart Infrastructure (SI) and Financial Services (SFS) groups this week announced the formation of Calibrant Energy (Calibrant), a joint venture that offers comprehensive onsite Energy-as-a-Service solutions at no up-front cost for its customers, which include corporate and industrial clients, as well as municipalities, universities, schools and ...
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Iceland Drilling Company has secured a drilling contract to drill 9 wells for expansion of geothermal capacity on the Azores, Portugal
EDA Renováveis have awarded Iceland Drilling Company (IDC) a new drilling contract on the Azores, for drilling geothermal wells on the islands of Sao Miguel and Terceira. This is the result following an open tender in the European Area, where the company participated in competition with two other European drilling companies. The project involves drilling for nine (9) geothermal wells, with ...
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Join us for an up-date on market development i the Nordic region!
Come and meet pellet producers, pellet buyers and large users, producers of equipment, consultants and researchers at Nordic Pellets Conference, 4-5 February 2020, in Uppsala, Sweden. The Nordic Pellets Conference is the best place for new business contacts in the Nordic region. All major players will be there! When and where: Study visits: 4 February, 2020 Conference: 4 – 5 ...
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Switch2 backs call to ban gas boilers in new homes
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is right to propose a ban on gas boilers in new homes by 2025, says heat network specialist Switch2 Energy."Heating homes with individual gas boilers, where high efficiency heat networks or lower carbon solutions are viable, is a nail in the coffin for the environment", says Richard Slee, CEO of Switch2."We welcome the CCC's call for the greater role of heat ...
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The Swedes opened a biofuel boiler plant built by Lithuanian company Axis Technologies
The city of Savsjo in Sweden has opened an 8 MW biofuel boiler plant built by Lithuanian company Axis Technologies. The Lithuanians completed the turnkey project as part of a contract with the Savsjo Energi energy company: they designed the boiler plant, manufactured the primary equipment, assembled it, ran it and adjusted it. The project is worth 3.5 million euros. “This is our largest ...
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Axis Technologies has begun a project in Norway, Lillehammer
Axis Technologies, a member company of the Axis Industries Group, has taken a new step into the Scandinavian market. The Lithuanians will supply and install a gas condensation economizer for the water heating boiler plant in Lillehammer. Axis Technologies signed an agreement with the Eidsiva Bioenergi AS Company, which provides centralized heating to Lillehammer. “Exporting products and ...
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Top 10 Uses for Biofuel
As biofuel is known as an alternative to diesel fuel, there are other uses. Many assume that the material is used just for transportation. But biofuel can provide hydrogen, clean up oil, work as cooking oil and more. Biofuels can work as an alternative to replacing energy needs from vehicle fuel to central home heating. Here are the top ten uses for biofuel. 1. Transportation More than 30% ...
By SG Bio Fuels
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Switch2 welcomes low carbon `central heating for cities` funding to deliver affordable warmth
Community heating specialist Switch2 has welcomed the government's multi-million pound funding commitment to low carbon UK heat networks that could cut heating costs by as much as 30%. The government has launched a £39m Pilot Scheme of the Heat Networks Investment Project – part of its £320m 'central heating for cities' funding package – which will be delivered over the ...
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Queen’s Award for Biomethane-to-Grid company
CNG Services has won the UK Queen’s Award for Enterprise for Innovation. The jury recognised the role CNG has played in getting ‘green gas’ into homes and companies via UK gas networks. To win the award, CNG Services demonstrated how it pioneered biomethane-to-grid technology. The first commercial connection was at Poundbury in 2012 where DMT delivered the Carborex MS 650 for ...
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Gemasolar aerial images taken from the Solar Impulse zero-fuel airplane
Gemasolar, the most innovative solar thermal plant in the world, owned by Torresol Energy – a joint venture between the engineering and technology group SENER and Masdar – has been photographed from the air by the zero-fuel airplane Solar Impulse, that landed in Seville (Spain) on June 23rd, days before completing its historic bid to circumnavigate the globe without fossil fuels. On ...
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Safer battery could spark investment in renewables
The dream of a home battery – cheap, durable, safe, and as big as you like – that could store solar or wind power is a step nearer reality. Researchers from Harvard University in the US report that they have tested a “flow battery” that uses cheap and abundant chemical elements, can be operated with plastic components, will not catch fire, and can operate at 99% ...
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Smart home heating and cooling
Original story at MIT News Smart temperature-control devices — such as thermostats that learn and adjust to pre-programmed temperatures — are poised to increase comfort and save energy in homes. Now MIT spinout Ecovent is further refining this technology with an automated system of vents and sensors that allows temperature control of individual rooms through an app — and which ...
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AirTest’s New Wireless RTUiLink Opens Large Opportunity For Building Operational Savings
AirTest Technologies Inc. (“ATI” - TSXV: AAT) Following the launch of its exclusive new wireless CO2/temperature and wireless dew point sensors, ATI is introducing its new RTUiLinkTM product that offers a low cost, wireless method of upgrading the energy and operational performance of the more than 15 million existing Roof Top Air Conditioning and Heating Units (RTU’s) installed ...
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Modern wood heating industry celebrates 1GW milestone under Renewable Heat Incentive
Installed capacity of modern wood heating systems under the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) have broken through the 1GW milestone earlier this month, thanks to strong demand in commercial, industrial and public sector organisations. Modern wood heating boilers burn wood pellets, chips, briquettes or logs and feed the heat into a central heating system or, in some cases, directly into industrial ...
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ANNOUCING : The results of the Innovation Competition of the Salon Bois Energie 2014
During the Salon Bois Energie 2014 in Saint-Etienne last month, 12 prizes were awarded by the Innovation Competition Jury - 4 Bois Energie d'Or (Gold) and 8 Bois Energie d'Argent (Silver). It is with great pleasure that we share with you all the relevant details of these encouraging innovations and we urge you to pass on the message to your readers, listeners, spectators wherever they should be ...
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GSA and World Energy Solutions Generate Millions in Savings for D.C.`s Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant
World Energy Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: XWES), a leading energy management services firm, today announced it has helped the Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant of the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) save more than $9.5 million on a new 17-month natural gas contract. The Central Heating and Refrigeration Plant is the landmark core infrastructure of the Heating Operation and ...
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Cyclamax unveils plans for East London gasification facility
An advanced gasification facility planned for Dagenham Dock will provide heat and power from East London’s waste – diverting it from landfill sites, according to plans revealed by eco-waste management company, Cyclamax. The facility is one of four Cyclamax is planning across the country, which will use advanced conversion technology on commercial and non-recyclable waste from businesses in the ...
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British Gas to trial five biomethane projects
British Gas has announced it is going ahead with five biomethane demonstration projects, which could be the first in the UK to inject green gas into the national grid. The news comes after the Government has professed its support for renewable technologies such as biomethane injection, biomass technology operators and biogas plants under the renewable heat incentive (RHI) scheme. The new ...
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Launch of first UK employee carbon ration scheme
The UK’s first employee carbon ration scheme to reduce individual carbon emissions is launched, reports Envido.WSP has launched the UK’s first employee carbon rationing scheme that is aimed to monitor employees’ personal carbon emissions, including home energy bills, petrol purchases and holiday flights. People who emit more than their ration of carbon emissions are having their pay docked in a ...
By Vital Energi
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