water source heat pump News
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Green light for solar panels in Scotland
The majority of householders in Scotland will be able to install solar panels and other energy generating equipment without planning permission from now on, although government ministers have yet to decide whether to exempt wind turbines and air-source heat pumps. Ground-source and water-source heat pumps will get the green light, as will flues for biomass systems which use organic materials. The ...
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Cooling tower retrofit project results in significant energy and cost savings
With a steady decline in energy performance of the original water-source-heat pump system and sharp increases in the cost of water, Seventh & Chestnut Associates and Waverly Management LLC looked for new options to reduce maintenance and water use. According to Philadelphia-based Urban Engineers Inc., the four original 250-ton forced-draft, closed-circuit cooling towers were consuming ...
By Evapco Inc.
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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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SHARC welcomes Scottish Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy to Clyde Gateway
SHARC Energy Systems welcomed Scotland’s Minister for Business, Innovation and Energy, Paul Wheelhouse MSP, to Clyde Gateway where it has been contracted to install a low carbon district heating system. Clyde Gateway was established in 2008 to carry out the regeneration of 840 hectares across the east end of Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. Working in partnership with Glasgow City Council, ...
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Bristol City Council Secure £1bn Investment to Help City Become Net Zero
Approved by Cabinet yesterday (6 December), the council will enter a joint venture with Ameresco Limited, and Vattenfall Heat UK as an essential subcontractor, to transform the way the city generates, distributes, stores and uses energy. The ground-breaking venture, known as Bristol City Leap, will rapidly increase the scale and pace of investment in low carbon energy infrastructure such as wind ...
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NY Governor Cuomo Announces $15 Million Available for Piloting Community Thermal Systems to Reduce Buildings
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo recently (Feb 4) announced that up to $15 million is available through a new program to pilot the use of community thermal systems to reduce buildings' greenhouse gas emissions. The new Community Heat Pump Systems Pilot Program will accept proposals to study, design and construct community thermal systems using heat pump technology, as well as produce a best practices ...
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Building a continental renewable super grid
As the planet warms and the economy cools, renewable resources are emerging as a realistic means to solve both problems in a timely fashion. Advocates of renewable energy want trillions of dollars spent in the coming decades on a continental-scale smart grid that will slash global greenhouse gas emissions and turn society toward a prosperous and ecological future. How can we build such a grid? ...
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On-line training accelerates the marketplace for Renewable Energies
“The world-wide growth in Renewable Energy over the last year has dramatically increased the demand for people that understand these technologies from a business perspective,” says Frederic Pouyot, Vice President of Clean Energy at Willis College of Business and Technology and CEO of GPEKS Constructions Inc. Willis College and GPEKS teamed up four years ago to deliver quality on-line courses ...
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Cities can take the lead in renewable energy and show national governments the way
“Leaders of cities and towns around the world who support and promote local renewable energy projects can blaze the trail towards greenhouse gas mitigation, energy security, sustainable development and social benefits for their citizens,“ said Nobuo Tanaka, Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) today in Paris. Launching the Agency’s new publication Cities, Towns and ...
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Xcel Energy Commits to Net-Zero Carbon Goal By 2050
Xcel Energy announced this week that it is aiming to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions from its natural gas business by 2050. In addition to its vision to provide 100% carbon-free electricity to customers by 2050, Xcel Energy is committing to becoming an overall net-zero energy company by 2050, while keeping service reliable and customer bills low. Xcel Energy is the only major U.S. ...
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Cogeneration can slash carbon and costs
Cogeneration of electricity and heat is one of the most promising means of using existing technologies for sustainable ends, but it is also one of the most neglected and least understood. Cogeneration can dramatically increase energy efficiency, slash carbon emissions, and save money. Using cogeneration in combination with heat-pump technology and plug-in vehicles as part of a renewable electric ...
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