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Austria, Gas Boiler Suspended After 6 Months
Following the U.S. and the U.K., Austria will also suspend gas boiler sales from 6 months later. The decision to suspend sales from 2025 will be implemented two years earlier. In order to replace gas boilers, solar installation is mandatory, and heating equipment that uses electricity must be purchased. The ion heating system uses 35% less electricity than a heat pump and more than half ...
By New Energy
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Free seminar introduces heat network suppliers to new Heat Trust Calculator
The free breakfast event, hosted by Switch2 and Winckworth Sherwood, will show delegates how to raise performance standards in heat network management and introduce them to the Heat Trust's new cost comparison tool. This calculator will help customers to better understand and compare their district heating bills. The online tool has been introduced by Heat Trust, which is the first customer ...
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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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Grand Nancy District Heating Network Installation, France
Estia, a subsidiary of Dalkia have installed a Jenbacher cogeneration engine supplied by Clarke Energy into the underground boiler room of the Grand Nancy district heating network in the Haye Plateau. The installation took place using a 40m, 220 tonne crane which was necessary in order to lower the engine into the depths of the boiler room in three parts. The Jenbacher JMS616 cogeneration engine ...
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Cairo West Power Station
We are proud to announce that Tuesday the 17th of November 2020 we reached the first firing at natural gas of our supercritical boiler of 650 MW in Cairo West Power Station. Next step of the commissioning activities will be the beginning of the steam blowing phases for the whole BOP piping, that is an important contractual milestone. AC Boilers is grateful for the great cooperation and ...
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Best steam quality for one of the best wines
ATTSU installs a 4,000 kg/h steam boiler for saturated dry steam at Bodegas Torres in Pacs del Penedés (Barcelona). One ATTSU Natural gas boiler has been installed to support the existing biomass boiler in order to absorb steam consumption peaks and biomass boiler maintenance tasks. Bodegas Torres, within its Torres & Earth program, and its eco-friendly policy, according to the ...
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ICS Cool Energy’s growing list of industry awards
As a £50m international market leader in temperature control solutions, ICS Cool Energy now has extra recognition of our business performance, with the addition of the pan-European Safe Hire certification and membership of the Gas Safe Register. The awards join an established line-up that includes Eurocent Certification, Reform and the business is also ISO registered. The Safe Hire ...
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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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How heat networks can clean up gas guzzling homes
The major challenge of cleaning up gas guzzling homes will be discussed by heat network specialist Switch2 Energy at two London Climate Action Week events this July.Sustainable heat networks are seen as a key solution to decarbonising UK housing, which accounts for 14% of total UK emissions. The government is considering proposals by the Committee on Climate Change to disconnect new homes from ...
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Switch2 awarded Mayor of London funding to develop heat network decarbonisation plan for Royal Arsenal
The Mayor of London has awarded funding through a support agreement with Switch2 Energy to develop a decarbonisation scheme for the Royal Arsenal heat network in Woolwich. The funding comes from Mayor's Local Energy Accelerator programme, which is 50% funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). It is part of the Mayor’s ambition to make London a zero-carbon city by 2030, with ...
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Scotland leads the way on heat network development
The Scottish Parliament has published the Heat Networks (Scotland) Bill. This will introduce regulation, together with a licensing system that will encourage greater use of district and communal heating in Scotland. The Bill is intended to create a coherent regulatory framework that will unlock transformational change and create a supportive market environment for the expansion of heat networks. ...
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Don't forget urgent climate challenge of heat decarbonisation
The UN secretary general warned conference goers that the planet is nearing "the point of no return". This opinion is backed up by many scientific studies, including the latest data from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), which suggest this year is on course to be the second or third warmest year ever. "Significant progress is being made in decarbonising power and there is a real ...
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Woodchip biomass and gas centre heats University of Northampton
A new biomass centre had been opened at the University of Northampton. The facility uses woodchip biomass and gas to provide hot water and low carbon heating to buildings around the University’s Waterside campus. Renewable energy specialists Vital Energi worked closely with the University’s Project Management team to build the 1.5MW biomass powered energy centre. It will work as ...
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Switch2 Energy celebrates wins at two top industry awards
The Shipley-based company’s innovative ICON connected heat interface unit was named ‘Domestic Heating Product of the Year’ at the HVR Awards, recognising exceptional performance and customer satisfaction delivered by the unit in homes across the UK. Similar to traditional domestic gas combi boilers, the connected HIU product transfers heat from the network’s central plant ...
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Sheffield landlord fined for exposing tenants to gas dangers
A Sheffield landlord who failed to ensure gas appliances at a property he rented out were safe and fit for purpose was today prosecuted by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). Mohammed Ikram, of Shiregreen Terrace, Shiregreen, exposed a tenant living on Morrison Avenue, Maltby, to the potential risk of carbon monoxide poisoning. He did not have the gas fire, combination boiler and associated ...
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AMETEK Land to Present on Biomass-Fired Boiler Optimisation at International Biomass Conference
Derek Stuart, Global Product Manager - Power, Combustion and Environmental at AMETEK Land, will look at how agricultural by-products, such as wood pellets, straw, and olive mill wastehave the potential to fuel a green power revolution. However, their combustion as fuel poses problems that are not present in traditional coal- or gas-fired boilers. This presentation examines the challenges and ...
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Greystar awards 25-year heat network contract to Switch2 Energy
Switch2 has also been appointed to provide metering and credit billing services to residents and businesses. Greenford Quay straddles the Grand Union Canal and includes 2,000 homes for rent and sale, and 185,000 sq. ft of commercial and community space. The low carbon district heating system includes two CHP engines and four gas boilers and is complemented by a renewable power generation system ...
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AREVA Solar Part of Consortium Selected by Australian Government for New 250 MW Solar Flagships Project
The Australian Government has selected the AREVA Solar, CS Energy and Wind Prospect CWP consortium's "Solar Dawn" as the preferred solar thermal power project in Round 1 of the Australian Government's Solar Flagships Program. Solar Dawn is a proposed 250 megawatt solar thermal gas hybrid power plant and will be the largest plant of its kind in the world when completed. The Australian ...
By AREVA
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Pyrolysis plant TDP-2-200 at the international oil and gas exhibition MIOGE-2015
TDP-2-200 is the solution for critical waste management in oil and gas industry. It processes drilling waste and oil sludge and converts them into valuable substances: boiler fuel, gas and high quality biochar. The final products of pyrolysis process are not only excellent substitute for fossil fuels but as commodity yielding significant value in green ...
By IPEC
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Net Zero 2050: A little less conversation, a little more action please
Switch2 Energy urges the government to take urgent action on heat decarbonisation to deliver on targeted net zero emissions by 2050. The government must introduce radical heat decarbonisation policies if it is to deliver on its intention to legislate for net zero emissions by 2050, says Switch2 Energy. "Although the UK has made impressive strides in reducing emissions from power, progress on ...
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