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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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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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HSE issues safety alert on gas appliance flues in ceiling voids
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a safety alert aimed at builders and developers, managing agents, landlords and occupiers of residential properties with gas central heating boilers sited on internal walls. The purpose of the alert is to raise awareness of a potential poisoning risk. The risk arises from a particular arrangement of flues for gas boilers. Such boilers, most ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Emphasis on energy savings and government support create growth potential in European heat pumps market, says Frost & Sullivan
Greater emphasis on energy savings in the heating sector and new legislation mandating increased energy efficiency in buildings will result in high growth in the European heat pumps market. The main market challenges in the future include enhancing performance and raising consumer awareness. New analysis from Frost & Sullivan (http://www.buildingtechnologies.frost.com), European Heat Pumps ...
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EUR 4m energy project sets sights on slashing European emissions
He who says that saving on energy will compromise comfort and convenience is in for a surprise. The EUR 4 million EU-funded project IntUBE (Intelligent Use of Buildings' Energy Information) has set its sights on slashing the amount of energy we use in our homes and offices by half, without jeopardising our creature comforts. Energy is considered to be the main factor influencing climate change, ...
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From Waste to Power
Master Magnets Ltd recently completed a processing plant in Sweden, enabling a company to recycle and reuse their waste packing material as a fuel for a PowerStation. Sweden contains a number of power stations, providing the local communities with central heating and power for their households. In 2004 there was a power station in Pitea Northern Sweden keen on using an alternative fuel of ...
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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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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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China’s energy efficiency the target of three new World Bank projects
Three new World Bank-financed projects, approved yesterday, will support China’s effort to improve the country’s efficient use of energy and reduce polluting emissions from power plants. Loans, totaling US$441 million and accounting for almost one third of World Bank lending planned for China in fiscal year 2008, will support the Energy Efficiency Financing Project, co-financed by a Global ...
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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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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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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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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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