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The EU Committee of the Regions Backs Geothermal Energy
The European Committee of the Regions’ plenary adopted its Opinion entitled “On the role of geothermal in localising energy production”, led by József Ribányi from the European Conservatives & Reformist Group (ECR), with nearly total support. This reiterates that geothermal is the technology of choice for municipalities all over Europe. This is because it is ...
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DOE Analysis Highlights Opportunities to Expand Clean, Affordable Geothermal Power
The U.S. Department of Energy this week released a new analysis quantifying the potential of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS) as a widespread renewable energy option in the United States. Prepared by DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Enhanced Geothermal Shot Analysis for the Geothermal Technologies Office finds that the goal of significantly expanding EGS deployment by ...
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Ameresco Receives Energy Storage Canada’s Landmark Application Award for its Carbon Reduction Project with Canada’s John Paul II Catholic Secondary School
Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy efficiency and renewable energy, today announced that Ameresco Canada is the recipient of the Energy Storage Canada’s (ESC) 2022 Landmark Application of Energy Storage Award for its comprehensive microgrid and facility renewal project with the London District Catholic School Board’s (LDCSB) John Paul ...
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Dandelion Energy Celebrates New Tax Credit for New York Homeowners Who Install Geothermal Systems
Dandelion Energy, the nation’s leading home geothermal company, celebrates the passing of the New York state budget, which includes a new tax credit for residential geothermal heat pump installations in New York. The new geothermal tax credit is available for any system installed after January 1, 2022, and homeowners can carry the tax credit forward for five years if their New York income ...
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Join Dandelion for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to Celebrate the Opening of our New Long Island Warehouse
Please join Dandelion Energy on April 26 for a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating our early 2022 kick-off announcement that we are now serving all of Long Island with geothermal heating and cooling solutions. The event will include a tour of our facility and one of the rigs that our Long Island drilling partner, Island Geo, is using for our customer’s installations. Long Island homeowners ...
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Massachusetts Homeowners Earn Cash Back with Geothermal
Massachusetts Homeowners Can Earn Alternative Energy Credits with a Geothermal System Massachusetts has a little-known program that offers cash back to homeowners who install geothermal heating systems. All geothermal systems installed in Massachusetts are eligible to earn Alternative Energy Credits (AECs) through the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (MA DOER). If the heating ...
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The outlook of the geothermal sector looks positive, despite COVID-19 disruption, so the geothermal decade has definitively kicked off
2010-2020 was a decade of sustained growth disrupted at the end by the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the effects of the crisis should be short term, the growing interest for geothermal energy in Europe is expected to boost investment in the sector. These findings come from the European Geothermal Market Report 2020 published today by the European Geothermal Energy Council ...
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GEO Announces Cooperative Engagement Initiative
The Geothermal Exchange Organization (GEO), a national non-profit trade association promoting the manufacture, design and installation of geothermal heating and cooling systems, announces a new effort to increase its involvement with rural electric cooperatives (RECs) to promote and support the installation of geothermal heat pumps. “Geothermal is the most energy efficient and ...
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Appalachian Power Among Key Partners in a New Effort to Advance Energy Storage Technology
Appalachian Power and Dominion Energy, Virginia’s largest electric utilities, have entered into a public-private partnership with InvestSWVA to advance energy storage technology and attract industry prospects to the region. The partnership also includes the Appalachian School of Law, Mountain Empire Community College and the Southwest Virginia Energy Research and Development Authority. ...
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Massachusetts Geothermal Rebates Made Easy for Homeowners with EnergySmart
THIS PROGRAM IS NOW CLOSED***. With rebates of up to $10,000, geothermal heating and cooling is within reach for more Massachusetts homeowners with the help of EnergySmart Alternatives. EnergySmart Alternatives, LLC of Medford, Massachusetts is well versed in obtaining geothermal rebates for its customers. EnergySmart has secured over $977,000 in rebates since 2014 through the Massachusetts ...
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Investing in geothermal drilling offers great returns
As natural gas costs continue to rise, many homeowners are looking for alternative heating and cooling options. Geothermal HVAC is gaining in popularity, and for good reason. Geothermal drilling uses the natural properties of the earth to create clean, renewable heating and cooling for residential homes and businesses, alike. As people become more and more aware of green options available to ...
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enOware GmbH awarded the European Geothermal Innovation Award 2017
enOware GmbH received the European Geothermal Innovation Award 2017 during the opening session of GeoTHERM exhibition and Congress 2017 in Offenburg, Germany. The award was given for their miniaturised sensor which allows to professionally plan, monitor and measure near-surface geothermal probes. Commenting on the award, Ruggero Bertani, Enel Green Power, President of EGEC and member of the jury ...
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Home of Tomorrow Demonstrates Energy Efficiency
Recent EnerGuide testing has shown the Home of Tomorrow, one of two homes that make up the Wilden Living Lab project, to be 52 per cent more energy efficient than a standard home constructed to today's building code. The pioneering initiative is collaborative three-year learning and research project by University of British Columbia Okanagan, Wilden developer Blenk Development Corp., AuthenTech ...
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Best Geothermal Energy Presentations of 2015 Announced
The Geothermal Resources Council (GRC) has announced the outstanding technical presentations from the global geothermal community for 2015. The selections were made in each of the GRC Technical Sessions held in late September at the 39th GRC Annual Meeting in Reno, Nevada, USA, the world’s largest annual geothermal energy event. The judging criteria included the technical content, the ...
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Des Moines Public Schools Awarded for Energy Star Sustained Excellence in Energy Management and Climate Communication
Des Moines Public Schools (DMPS) has been honored as an Energy Star® Partner of the Year for Sustained Excellence for its commitment to demonstrating environmental and financial stewardship through comprehensive energy management. The school district also received a second Energy Star award, for Climate Communication, for raising awareness of the impacts of climate change. The U.S. ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Hard and Soft Services Score Over Value-added Services in the North American IFM Market
Integrated facilities management' (IFM') obvious benefits of cost and resource savings, have allowed service providers to break organizations’ resistance to external support for the maintenance and upkeep of their physical assets. While FM suppliers merely focus on the delivery of bundled FM services, IFM spans multiple services, which give it an edge. New analysis from Frost & ...
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Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Announces Projects to Improve Farm and Rural Business Energy Efficiency
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for 424 projects across the nation that will help agricultural producers and rural small businesses reduce their energy consumption and costs, and use renewable energy technologies in their operations. "Today's Rural Energy for America Program announcements will provide further assistance for agricultural producers and rural small ...
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Frost & Sullivan: increasing awareness and new partnerships boost the luminaires market in Europe
Stringent European Union directives, awareness programmes, and partnership projects are promoting steady growth in the European lighting equipment market. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.buildingtechnologies.frost.com), European Lighting Equipment (Luminaires) Market, finds that the European Union market for luminaires earned revenues of $15.51 billion in 2012 and estimates ...
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Escalating energy prices power European energy savings contract and performance contracting market, finds Frost & Sullivan
The European energy savings contract and performance contracting market is highly resilient to economic downturns and will continue to exhibit healthy growth levels. Demand will continue to increase as constantly rising energy prices compel organisations to look for ways to optimise the performance of their buildings and reduce costs. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Higher energy efficiency of geothermal heating and cooling attracts non-residential segments
Heating and cooling accounts for 40 percent to 50 percent of power consumption in non-residential buildings. This highlights the urgent need to increase the overall energy efficiency in these buildings – geothermal heating and cooling technologies may hold the key. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan's (http://www.buildingtechnologies.frost.com) Analysis of the North American Geothermal ...
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