Open District Heating (Öppen Fjärrvärme)
Summary of the Open District Heating System View Open District Heating (Öppen Fjärrvärme) System Recover heat with Open District Heating There is a large amount of surplus heat in Stockholm that…
JSC Rigas Siltums
Summary of the Rigas Siltums System View Rigas Siltums System Our company, the Joint Stock Company “RĪGAS SILTUMS”, started its operation on the 1st of May 1996. Today, its shareholders are…
Korea District Heating Corporation Systems
Summary of the Korea District Heating Corporation Systems View Korea District Heating Corporation Systems Since its foundation in 1985, KDHC has contributed to Korea’s economic rise through efficient developments in energy and…
Lodi District Heating System | Lodi, Italy
Summary of the Lodi District Heating System View Lodi District Heating System | Lodi, Italy Lodi is an Italian city of 45,000 inhabitants located 25km southeast of Milan. District Heating…
JSC Litesko Project in Alytus
Summary of the JSC Litesko Project View JSC “Litesko” Project in Alytus, Lithuania To ensure sustainable and environmentally friendly heat production and supply – Power plant station was…
Combined CHP&DHC System | Helsinki, Finland
Summary Helsinki Combined Heating & Cooling System View Helsinkis Combined Heating and Cooling System Combined District Heating and Cooling – Quality of life with globally exceptional and eco-efficient district cooling In Helsinki, the…
Lusail District Energy System
Summary of the Lusail District Energy System View Lusail District Energy System The district cooling system in Lusail will reduce 50% of the CO2 emissions that would come from conventional…
HafenCity East Sustainable District Heating System
Summary of the HafenCity East System View HafenCity East Sustainable District Heating System Hamburg’s HafenCity is currently the largest inner-city development project in Europe. A former harbour industrial area…
EEQ2 Project
“EEQ2” new heating & power station connected to building and district network View EEQ2 System The “EEQ2” project is an initiative from the energy provider of the city of Görlitz,…
Hungerkamp Project | Braunschweig, Germany
Summary of the “Hungerkamp” System View Hungerkamp heating & power station connected to a 4 km small district heating network The “Hungerkamp” project is an innovative initiative led by…
Käenoja Heating Plant and Toijala Network
Summary of the Käenoja heating plant and Toijala network System View Käenoja Heating Plant and Toijala District Heating Network Caligo technology innovation combines effectively traditional wet scrubbing methods with…
District Heating to Ships in Gothenburg
Summary of the district heating to ships system View District Heating to Ships The Stena Line-owned passenger ship Stena Danica is the first ship…
Deep Geothermal Energy | Kirchweidach, Germany
Summary of the Deep Geothermal Energy System View Deep Geothermal Energy | Kirchweidach, Germany In the municipality of Kirchweidach in Germany, since 2013 vegetables are being produced sustainably and…
Milan District Heating system
Summary of the Milan District heating system View Milan District Heating System Milan is a global city with points of excellence in different fields, from business to…
KJKP Toplane Sarajevo District heating
Summary of the KJKP Toplane Sarajevo system View KJKP Toplane Sarajevo District Heating system Cantonal Public Utility Company KJKP Toplane – Sarajevo is the largest district heating…
Interactive Actual Energy Consumption Map
Summary of the AECC map View Interactive Actual Energy Consumption Map The interactive map of the Actual Energy Consumption Class (AECC) is a tool to stimulate the population in…
Dall Energy Biomass System
Summary of the Dall Energy Biomass System View Dall Energy Biomass System The Dall Energy biomass furnace combines updraft gasification and gas combustion. Hereby several advantages are…
Award winning DHC systems
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Whistler Athletes Village
We have found a tremendous interest in our District Energy Sharing System (DESS) from around the world. So far we have accumulated Awards from organizations such as the Canadian Association of Consulting Engineers (ACEC), the Non-Oil and Gas Energy Infrastructure Project Canada, the Community Energy Association (CEA)
Veolia Energy Philadelphia
Veolia Energy Philadelphia’s Green Steam Conversion reflects extensive infrastructure upgrades at the Philadelphia district network, which simultaneously increased our operating efficiency and reduced our environmental impact, benefiting the 500+ buildings (100 million sq. ft. of space) on Philadelphia’s 41 miles of district energy network.
Stanford University District Energy System
The Stanford Energy System Innovations (SESI) project is a $438 million major transformation of the campus district energy system. The transformation is from gas fired combined heat and power with steam distribution to electrically powered combined heat and cooling with hot water distribution. When completed in April 2015, the new heat recovery system will be 52% more efficient than the existing cogeneration system
Lambda Test System
Test system design and measurements of the thermal conductivity for composite pipesA significant fraction of human energy consumption is used for heating purposes thus efficient and durable insulation is a necessity. Although different materials have been used to insulate district heating pipes over the last decades only few studies have been conducted on the long-term aging effects.
JKP ‘Beogradske elektrane’
Before heating season 2009/10. PUC “Beogradske elektrane” burns up to 10.000 tons of coal per year. Besides high emissions of SO2, CO, NOx and particulates there is a serious problem of ground contamination with coal and ash during transport, handling and storage. This is another important reason for introduction biomass in coal fuelled boilers and thus further decreasing the consumption of coal and introduction of renewable.
EnergyPLAN – Advanced Energy System Analysis Model
The EnergyPLAN model is an advanced energy systems analysis model, which allows for the analysis of complete energy systems of a town, a country or the whole of Europe including future sustainable energy systems.The model has been used to identify the role of district heating and cooling in present and future energy systems showing the benefits of including district energy.
ENERGICENTRALEN Bjerringbro
Improvements of the local environment and a positive effect on the climate due to reduced CO2 emissions are two important results of this project created by an equal partnership between Grundfos and Bjerringbro Varmeværk (DH Company). A third result is a reduction of the annual fuel costs.
Dubai Healthcare City Treated Sewage Effluent-Reverse Osmosis Plant EMPOWER
The major challenges that face any district cooling provider are to operate the chiller systems with the highest achievable efficiency, minimize water wastage and reduce the cost of operation.This documentation was prepared to demonstrate how the conversion from the usage of potable or domestic water in district cooling plants into alternative water sources
Drammen Fjernvarme District Heating
UK firm Star Refrigeration has launched a groundbreaking renewable energy heating system, which will heat homes and businesses across an entire city in Norway.The Glasgow-based cooling solutions specialist, with Norwegian refrigeration partner Norsk Kulde, has just sold its first Neatpump to the city of Drammen.
District cooling system in Šaleška Valley
The subject of our application is a district cooling system in the city of Velenje, Slovenia. There the cooling energy is produced in absorption chillers. The heat for their operation is supplied from an existing district heating system. In it the supply temperatures are sufficient to power the absorption chillers through the whole year, due to industry consumers.
Co-Op City CHP Plant Bronx
The Co-Op City complex is a housing cooperative located in Bronx, NY, originally constructed in 1973. The complex includes 15,372 units located in over 35 buildings, and houses approximately 60,000 residents. In 2007, the cooperative board began the process of upgrading the site’s outdated central heating plant to a combined heat and power plant
Con Edison Steam System County of Manhattan
For 130 years, Con Edison has had the privilege of being the energy service of choice to many of New York’s most prominent and unique properties. The Company’s plan is to continue to provide Steam Service to customers by maintaining the current high reliability and operational excellence on production and distribution,
CHP for Medias Hospital
The Microturbine produces in cogeneration system high-efficiency power (0.4/50 Hz) and heat from exhaust gas using natural gas as fuel. In the case of natural gas supplied from the distribution networks, it is necessary to mount a compressor downstream of the microturbine to ensure the minimum required pressure of 5.2 bar.
Bromölla district heating
By an ambitious environmental plan and a cooperation between local industries and the municipality we have created a win-win district heating scheme.We have substituted fossil oil equivalent to 50GWh by local surplus heat from a local pulp and paper industry
District Energy St. PaulSaint Paul, USA
Integration is the hallmark of District Energy St. Paul’s system. From its inception, District Energy St. Paul envisioned a future that used district heating and cooling infrastructure to integrate a variety of local, renewable energy sources and technologies. District Energy has doubled the amount of buildings served from 1985, yet is producing less carbon thanks to the incorporation of biomass, CHP, and solar.
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What is District Energy?
The fundamental idea of District Energy (DE) is simple: reusing / recycling energy that otherwise would be wasted and replacing fossil fuels.
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District Energy systems are essential to reducing CO2 emissions and increasing energy efficiency in our cities, communities and campuses.
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Application is open to systems that illustrate the overall importance of District Energy (heating & cooling) in providing sustainable energy solutions.
Cornell Combined Heat and Power Project
In 2009, Cornell University released the Climate Action Plan, which sets a goal of reducing campus net greenhouse gas emissions to zero by 2050. One of the biggest roadblocks to climate neutrality is coal. Historically, Cornell University burned nearly 60,000 metric tons of coal for campus heating. Cornell’s Beyond Coal Initiative was launched in 2010.
Princess Noura University for Women
Implementation of a large scale solar thermal district application to provide for space heating and hot water needs of the Princess Nora University for Women in Saudi Arabia (PNUW). The University Campus has to supply 40.000 students, 13 faculties, lecturers and university personnel, dormitories, research facilities and a gymnasium.
Decentralized District Heating and Cooling system (DHC) Helsinki
Helsingin Energia’s DHC smart city- solution combines CHP, district heating and district cooling in the most energy-efficient way in the world. Helsingin Energia is business based and profitable energy company not subsidized by the municipality. We promote end-use energy efficiency by monitoring, reporting and providing
Texas A&M University Combined Heat & Power (CHP) System
The Texas A&M University (TAMU) Utilities & Energy Services (UES) Department produces, delivers, and manages utilities and energy serving close to 24 million GSF on the Texas A&M University campus. UES determines purchased energy requirements, manages extensive utility production and delivery systems for electricity, cooling, heating, water, and other services
Integrated District Cooling Plant (IDCP)
Qatar District Cooling Company “Qatar Cool” was incorporated in November 2003 as a Qatari Closed Stock Company. The company was set up with the intention of providing district-cooling services to the public, commercial and industrial sectors of Qatar.The company’s first plant in West Bay has a capacity of 30,000 Ton of Refrigeration,
Bio-oil production connected to existing DH and CHP
Bio-oil production in city of Joensuu is new type of trigeneration concept that is added to existing district heating and CHP. It is a great example of expansion of district energy business to new markets and areas beyond traditional district energy scheme. Bio-oil production create another way to utilize and capitalize local biomass that otherwise would be unused.
The brilliance of a district energy system Falun
HistoryFalu Energi & Vatten (Falu Energy & Water) is taking responsibility by developing the community of Falun, county Dalarna. Our cooling & heating plant is situated on the brink of the world heritage, Falu copper mine, which for many centuries was one of Sweden´s foremost business activities. That is a tradition we are carrying on Climate impact…
Twence: A Top Supplier of Sustainable Energy
For years, the public debate on how to achieve a more sustainable supply of energy had focused on electricity. Waste processor Twence realised that using residual heat from the production of electricity and even replacing the production of electricity by supplying heat and steam (especially to replace natural gas)
ENERGICENTRALEN Bjerringbro
Improvements of the local environment and a positive effect on the climate due to reduced CO2 emissions are two important results of this project created by an equal partnership between Grundfos and Bjerringbro Varmeværk (DH Company). A third result is a reduction of the annual fuel costs.
Sunstore 4 Marstal, Denmark
The city of Marstal, in the Danish island of Aero, has adopted in summer 2012 the Sunstore4 model, a 100% renewable district heating system integrating several different technologies: solar thermal, biomass boiler and heat pump. The plant also include ORC electricity production and a 75,000 m3
Aberdeen Heat & Power District Energy
Aberdeen Heat & Power Ltd (AHP) is a ‘not for profit’ company that was set up by Aberdeen City Council in 2002 to develop and operate district heating and CHP systems in the city. The network has grown through implementation of three principal projects and now supplies around 1750 flats in multi story blocks
