Denmark to offer tax incentives for district heating

In Denmark, new administrative and fiscal rules will allow companies to use their excess heat or sell it to the district heating network. In the ... Lire la suite

Haiyang: converting nuclear power to district heating

In Shandong province, China, Haiyang nuclear power plant has started providing district heating. The country’s first commercial nuclear heating project was carried out in the ... Lire la suite

Singapore – city of the future?

Singapore’s latest venture is to build a new city, with underground roads for electric vehicles, vacuum garbage collection, and plenty of city farms. The newest ... Lire la suite

Valmet supply Finnish town with boiler for heating network

Valmet, the Finnish pulp, paper and energy solutions company is to supply a boiler for remote heat production to the Seinäjoen Energia Oy thermal power ... Lire la suite

Kahramma seek to develop cooling solutions for individual houses in Doha

A feasibility study is being carried out by Kahramaa (Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation) to help set up investment projects in district cooling plants, ... Lire la suite

EU to back district heating project in Greece

In Greece, the seaside town of Alexandroupolis is working on a sustainable district heating system, using geothermal sources. The project is supported by the IRIS ... Lire la suite

Green Edge to open new data center in Trondheim

An agreement has been signed between Green Edge Compute AS and Statkraft for the construction of a “1 to 5 MW” data center in Trondheim, ... Lire la suite

Northwest Territories Power Corporation enters district heating market

Canada: Northwest Territories Power Corporation is expected to make a move into district heating, according to local representative Rylund Johnson. In his statement to the ... Lire la suite

Empower connect One Za’abeel to Dubai district cooling network

Empower (Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation) has connected Ithra Dubai’s “One Za’abeel” building complex to its district cooling network, providing 9,600 tonnes of refrigeration to ... Lire la suite

Creating artificial islands to store energy in Helsinki

A revolutionary man-made island project has been designed by Carlo Ratti and his team as part of the Helsinki Energy Challenge. The aim of the ... Lire la suite

Using radioactive decay to power heating networks

An innovative solution involving radioactive decay has been developed by researchers at the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen and the Czech Technical University in ... Lire la suite

Shell and EBN launch geothermal project in Netherlands

In the Netherlands, in Leeuwarde, a large-scale geothermal energy heating project, led by a local construction and heating company, EBN (Energie Beheer Netherlands) and Shell, ... Lire la suite

New cooling network at King’s Cross is up and running

As of today, the cooling network in London’s King’s Cross district is fully operational.The network is designed to serve the area north of the Regent ... Lire la suite

French city of Grenoble announces mandatory connection to DHC networks

As of 1 July 2018, connection to the district heating network will become mandatory in Grenoble. This measure concerns the buildings located near the Grenoble ... Lire la suite

Engie to invest heavily in Singapore

Engie have announced that they will invest 80 million Singaporean dollars into the infrastructure of Singapore in an exercise to promote the regional development of ... Lire la suite

Cardiff announces plans for new district heating network

A new waste recovery system for the city of Cardiff has just been installed and could soon be used to heat public and commercial buildings ... Lire la suite

Failed DHC scheme refunds investors

A failed Canadian district heating initiative, which had fallen by the wayside in the province of Ontario, has left city officials and investors extremely relieved ... Lire la suite

New biomass boiler greatly reduces Carbon emissions

The town of Vénissieux, in the Greater Lyon area, has just inaugurated a new biomass boiler room in its heating network. This is a major ... Lire la suite

Germany easing energy transition via cogeneration

The Ministry of Public Works in Germany has just approved a cogeneration project which is presented as the most flexible plant project ever. It is ... Lire la suite

Washington: First steps towards a microgrid

The city of Washington, DC, in the United States, seems to be increasingly set to take the plunge and move towards the installation of a ... Lire la suite

UK-wide heating network investment scheme launched

The Association for Decentralised Energy today welcomed the launch of the £39m Pilot Scheme of the Heat Networks Investment Project. The investment aims to increase ... Lire la suite

Aarhus – pioneering green DHC network

One of the biggest biomass-fuelled Combined Heat and Power (CHP) stations in the world is in Aarhus. The Studstrup plant began to burn wood pellets ... Lire la suite

EU approve Vilnius CHP plan

The European Commission today approved support for a combined heat and power (CHP) district heating plant in Vilnius, Lithuania. The nation’s request for approval of ... Lire la suite

50 cities now signed up to Celsius project

Celsius is a project co-funded by the European Union to help communities plan, implement and optimize new or older urban heating infrastructure. The project had ... Lire la suite

UK government ready to push DHC networks

The British government is supporting a major push to greatly expand the country’s district heat networks. Ministers set up a “heat network delivery unit” in ... Lire la suite

South Korea set to promote cogeneration

The South Korean government is seeking to increase the share of combined heat and power in the country’s energy mix in order to meet decarbonisation ... Lire la suite

Dalkia look to break into UK market

Dalkia, the French firm and EDF subsidiary, is making inroads into England, as evidenced by the company’s announcement on Tuesday, July the 19th, that they ... Lire la suite

DHC networks helping combat poverty in Scotland

In addition to their many environmental benefits, district heating networks can now be used in the fight against poverty! This is the startling claim made ... Lire la suite

What will Brexit mean for DHC networks?

The announcement of the result of the UK’s referendum on the European Union on the 24th of June has already generated many column inches in ... Lire la suite

Smart DHC network in Kalmar, Sweden

NODA, a Swedish company specializing in energy optimization of district heating systems software, is working with the operator Kalmar Energi with the aim of creating ... Lire la suite