heating and cooling system 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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ABB innovation increases breaker performance in power plants
The innovation has enabled ABB to increase the nominal current of its HECS family of generator circuit breakers (GCBs) from 18,000 amps (A) to 23,000 A, an increase of almost 28 percent. Previously GCBs of this rating required a so-called 'forced' cooling system of pumps, fans or motors to counteract heat dissipation and keep sensitive breaker components within their rated temperature ...
By ABB
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Strawbale Home in Rush, NY.
Ikan Design Consultants in collaboration with Brasley Architecture are delivering full service design for the sustainable strawbale specification home to be built in Rush, NY. Sustainable features include strawbale envelope, geothermal heating and cooling system, in floor radiant heating and cooling, energy recovery ventilator, on demand hot water systems, and PV solar panels. Project goal is to ...
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Strawbale Home in Rush, NY
Ikan Design Consultants in collaboration with Brasley Architecture are delivering full service design for the sustainable strawbale specification home to be built in Rush, NY. Sustainable features include strawbale envelope, geothermal heating and cooling system, in floor radiant heating and cooling, energy recovery ventilator, on demand hot water systems, and PV solar panels. Project goal is to ...
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Webinar. Promoting transparency on energy costs: heating & cooling solutions
Industry players from the Renewable Heating and Cooling sector (bioenergy, geothermal, solar thermal, air-source/water based/geothermal heat pumps) are invited to participate in an online workshop with the following topics: Levelised costs of heating and cooling: a new common approach Acquiring a heating and cooling system: Key decision factors in five European countries Comparing solutions: ...
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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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New video on District Energy
DESMI has produced pumps for district heating for almost 90 years. DESMI has recently released a new video made with support from Danish Board of District Heating. New technologies, concepts and environmental issues are placing new demands on the industry and giving rise to many questions. What are the smart energy grid, and how do we integrate with it? How do we save more energy and space? ...
By DESMI A/S
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Georgia Power and PulteGroup partner for first Smart Neighborhood™ in Atlanta
Georgia Power and PulteGroup, Inc. announced today a new partnership to develop Atlanta's first Smart Neighborhood™ at Pulte's Altus at the Quarter development. The new, state-of-the art Pulte Homes community is located in Atlanta's Upper West Side, one of the city's most vibrant and popular areas. Each technology-enhanced home in the Georgia Power Smart Neighborhood will be served by ...
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AutoGrid Partners with Mysa to Launch Utility-Scale Virtual Power Plants
AutoGrid, a leading Virtual Power Plant (VPP) provider, announced this week it will launch one of several VPP projects in collaboration with Canadian manufacturer Mysa, whose line of smart thermostats for electric heating and cooling systems is designed to offer robust home energy management capabilities for both consumers and utilities. The initial VPP project with Puget Sound Energy (PSE) ...
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Calgon Carbon World Headquarters and Innovation Center Grand Opening
Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC: NYSE), an environmental technology company headquartered in Pittsburgh, held a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the grand opening of its new world headquarters on Monday, September 21. Randy Dearth, Calgon Carbon’s Chairman, President & CEO, alongside the company’s board of trustees, welcomed local municipal and state officials including Rich ...
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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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Cornell Tech to build tallest passive house in the United States
Cornell Tech announced this week that it would begin construction of the world’s tallest Passive House certified building. The building, part of the first phase of Cornell Tech’s new campus construction, is set to be completed in 2017 and will rise 26 stories to a total of 270 feet tall. Passive House standards are the most strict energy efficient standards, far surpassing other ...
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Bell & Gossett pumps power heating and cooling systems at U.S Bank Stadium
U.S. Bank Stadium, the largest public works project in Minnesota history, is not just a multipurpose stadium in Minneapolis — it’s a work of art. Built on the site of the former Metrodome, the $1.1 billion stadium is nearly twice the size as the National Football League’s Minnesota Vikings’ old home, and is praised not only for its unique architecture but also for its ...
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Itron Releases Innovative and Flexible Thermal Energy Meter
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today the release of a new thermal energy meter. The embedded ultrasonic technology will help utilities around the world more accurately and reliably measure energy in heating and cooling systems as well as provide data about usage patterns. The ItronCF-UltraMaxx V meter is a compact meter with advanced smart metering features ...
By Itron Inc
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All-Electric Building Draws Energy From 500 Feet Below the Surface of the Earth
The key to heating an 834-unit apartment tower under construction on the Brooklyn waterfront will be a hole in the ground. Actually, it will be 322 holes, each about 4 inches (10 centimeters) across and exactly 499 feet (152 meters) deep any deeper and New York state would consider it a mining project. These holes comprise the heart of a geothermal heat-pump system that is expected to reduce ...
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Denmark’s biggest hospital focuses on sustainability
Sustainability, comfort and energy consumption are in focus at the biggest hospital building ever constructed in Denmark. On the outskirts of Aarhus, Grundfos is playing a vital role helping the New University Hospital reach its environmental goals. 50 kilometres away from the headquarters of Grundfos in Bjerringbro, a hospital as big as a small town is being constructed in Aarhus, the second ...
By Grundfos
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Solar Homes Arrive on the National Mall for Decathlon
WASHINGTON, DC, October 2, 2007 (ENS) - Partially constructed solar homes designed and built by teams from 20 universities from across the United States and around the world have arrived on the National Mall in Washington, where the U.S. Energy Department's third Solar Decathlon opens October 12. The homes have been in development for the past two years, but now the teams are rushing to ...
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Enesoon HSES Technology Selected as Qingdao`s Key Energy-saving Technologies, Products and Equipment Promotion List
The Development and Reform Commission of Qingdao, China, announced the promotional list of Qingdao's key energy-saving technologies, products and equipment (the 3rd batch) on July 1. The "HSES Multi-energy complementary energy storage and efficient cooling and heating system technology" ,which was recommended by Shenzhen Enesoon Science & Technology Co., Ltd. and Qingdao Enesoon Xigu Heat ...
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Spirit Lake, Iowa, community school district receives EPA green power partnership award
EPA has presented the Spirit Lake, Iowa, Community School District with a Green Power Partnership Award for its on-site generation of green power. EPA’s Green Power Partnership works with a variety of organizations, including Fortune 500 companies, agencies at all levels of government, and a growing number of colleges, universities, and schools, to promote green power concepts. EPA defines ...
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Solar thermal sector expects growth push from EU Directive
The solar thermal sector welcomes the renewables Directive proposal published by the European Commission, today. For the first time, renewable heating and cooling will be fully integrated into EU legislation. ESTIF welcomes particularly the obligation for new and refurbished buildings, from which solar thermal will benefit. Member States are called to improve the framework for solar thermal now, ...
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