ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

With an ambitious renewable energy target of 50% of its power supply by 2030, is there a prominent role for geothermal in Saudi Arabia’s energy mix? Studies show that cooling consumes 101 TWh of electricity in residences and 70 TWh in commercial establishments, accounting for 50% of total yearly electricity usage.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Work has started on a geothermal district heating and cooling network in Ferney-Voltaire in Ain, France, near the Geneva Airport. The project is targeting commissioning by 2030. The local public company Terre d’innovation has invested EUR 30 million into the project. It will also generate 4,500 jobs.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C. This is the only way that ambition can become reality.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

But in early 2019, Amazon announced an industry-first for a delivery company: It pledged that half of all of its shipments would be net-zero carbon by 2030. In addition to its electric commuter buses, Genentech has committed to converting its entire light-duty sales fleet of 1,200 cars to electric or plug-in hybrid by 2030.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

The Anglo-Dutch firm first announced plans to give its shareholders a direct say over its climate action strategy back in December , in a bid to boost corporate transparency and governance surrounding its drive to reach net-zero emissions for its core business by 2030 and across its entire supply chain by 2039. Climate Summit later this year.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2021

Zero emission flight powered by hydrogen fuel cell technology moved one step closer to take-off this week, after US green energy technology start-up HyPoint said it would start shipping its "turbo air-cooled" hydrogen fuel cell system to aircraft manufacturers next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Bristol has previously made a public commitment to net zero by 2030, ahead of any other UK city. Councillor Paul Smith, Cabinet Member for Housing, said: “The work at Ashton Rise brings together two of the council’s top priorities for Bristol – our commitment to build new homes, and to become a carbon neutral city by 2030.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. and globally by 2040. Patrick Collison, CEO and co-founder, Stripe; San Francisco.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Saxony, Germany. “We He continues: “Of course, researchers will continue to work on what can be done after 2030, but today’s EU energy legislation should have a clear focus on what must be done before 2030.”.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The energy landscape is in a period of major turmoil and, while there is positive evidence of clean energy progress, for our net zero and climate targets to be reached, policy action and doubling of global investment to $4 trillion by 2030 will be needed. Demand for cooling needs to be a focus for policy makers, as it makes the second?largest

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Microsoft has set set its sights on becoming a net replenisher of water by 2030 in a bid to help manage "chronic shortages of freshwater" expected in the decades to come, it announced yesterday. This means that by 2030 Microsoft will replenish more water than it consumes on a global basis.".

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Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-negative Cooling Energy Monitor 89

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The global launch rate has already more than doubled over the past decade, with plans to dispatch a further 2,000 satellites globally by 2030. Although other particulate matter such as alumina is thought to cool the atmosphere, research into rocket launch emissions is inconclusive.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

While more than one-third (34%) of the world’s largest companies say they are now committed to Net Zero 1 , nearly all (93%) will fail to achieve their goals if they don’t at least double the pace of emissions reduction by 2030, according to a new report from consulting firm Accenture. 2] Accenture CXO survey, June 2022.

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Grist

MARCH 10, 2025

Government Accountability Office in 2022 estimated that as many as 60,000 new satellites will crowd our skies by 2030. We rely on the atmosphere to clean out everything that we have in space, and it does a worse job at that as it contracts and cools, Parker said. The environment is very cluttered already.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

New report suggests investment in suppotrt of the UN Sustainable Development Goals could protect 450 million people by 2030. Rolling out cooling technologies to the 1.2 The report assesses 76 countries with cooling access challenges and found that, globally, 1.2 We must all commit to urgent action.".

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 11, 2024

It can pull carbon dioxide out of the air, run partially on servers’ waste heat, and even generate water to help cool a data center more efficiently. Instead, it continuously moves the sorbent between two chambers to avoid the energy loss that comes with reheating, cooling, and changing the pressure in a single chamber.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

In June, Lyft announced that every vehicle on its platform will be electric by 2030. Battery packs contain components such as cooling, sensors and battery management systems that, if more open, could allow engineers and designers to optimize storage and layout for energy efficiency.

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Clean Energy Canada

APRIL 8, 2025

Meeting the previous federal governments housing plan (which would support nearly four million houses by 2030) was expected to generate the equivalent of more than a years worth of Canadas total emissions by 2030. Such a policy can offer a trade-compliant route to supporting Canadian industries at a time of tariffs and uncertainty.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Those include a deal with state power agency Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems to build 12 of its 50-megawatt modules by 2030 to deliver power across the Intermountain West as part of UAMPS’ Carbon Free Power Project. NuScale says it has also signed agreements with entities in the U.S.,

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The City of Seoul in South Korea has created a “Comprehensive Plan for Promotion and Activation of Geothermal Energy” that aims to grow its current installed geothermal heating and cooling capacity of 278 MWth to 1 GW by 2030. of the city’s renewable energy mix.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Cooling 109

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 3, 2022

Sharon Walker, Oceanographer at NOAA’s Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory said: “Early data shows ongoing activity within the caldera, though it is too early to tell if it is due to continuing eruption but at a reduced intensity, or hydrothermal venting driven by cooling lava, or both.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Included in the 25-year concession agreement is the provision of renewable power, potable water, sustainable solid waste management, wastewater treatment and district cooling infrastructure. The resulting saving in CO2 emissions to the atmosphere is equivalent to nearly half a million tons each year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Engineering consultancy WSP has pledged to halve the carbon footprint of all the designs and advice it provides to clients by 2030, in a move praised as setting a new bar for the advisory sector.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The geothermal project is expected to be completed by 2028, towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. With the project, the Smith College aims to fully move away from fossil fuels for the heating and cooling systems of the campus. The heat will be extracted either for cooling, or amplified using heat pumps.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The main building will be provided with crossflow natural ventilation for fresh air and passive cooling for ventilation, so that the school can remain open and with a pleasant internal temperature during heatwaves.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Facebook has pledged to become a "water positive" company by 2030, committing the social media and tech giant to returning more water to the environment than is consumed by its global operations by the end of the decade.

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GreenBiz

JULY 8, 2021

A second edition of the bank’s 2030 Thematic Roadmap , released in March, names water as one of the topics most likely to dominate discussion with investors over the next decade. While the companies acknowledge the materiality of water risks to their supply chains, they’re lagging on disclosing these risks and on efforts to address them.

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Charged

JANUARY 17, 2024

Glandless design and bearings made for cooling water applications aim to limit wear and tear. Production is scheduled to begin in 2025 and delivery will last until 2030. Lower heat loss makes cooling systems smaller and more efficient. High-voltage CWA 2000 pumps are designed for use in 800 V architecture.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 3, 2025

. “ The competitive incentive mechanism, complementary to the Thermal Account, aims to increase the production of large-scale plants and achieve the national decarbonisation objectives for 2030 outlined in the PNIEC,” said Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, Minister for the Environment.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Geothermal energy is a renewable, stable, and carbon-neutral energy source, with estimates suggesting it could meet up to a quarter of Europes heating and cooling needs and up to 10% of its electricity demand. Amidst ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, strengthening Europes energy, sovereignty and sustainability has become a key priority.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 7, 2024

Power grids in many cities are being pushed to the edge of their operating limits with increased cooling demand and other climate change impacts, the IEA has reported. In China alone, in 2023 a 70% year-on-year increase in air conditioner sales was recorded.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 22, 2024

The Catalan Institute of Energy (ICAEN) and the Cartographic and Geological Institute of Catalonia (ICGC) have signed agreement to work together to create the “Strategic Plan to promote Geoenergy in Catalonia in the 2030 Horizon” (GEOENERGIA-CAT Plan 2030).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

However, Beyond energy: monetising biomethane’s whole system benefits 1 shows that ‘in 2030, the whole system benefits of biomethane production in the EU27 + UK could range from €38-78 billion per year, rising to €133-283 billion by 2050.’ HRS DCS (Digestate Concentration System) for improved management and handling of digestate.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Mayor of London’s development corporation, OPDC has been awarded £36 million from the government’s Green Heat Network Fund (GHNF) to harness waste heat from the cooling of several data centres. It forms part of a wider £65m award from the GHNF to five projects across the UK. .” ”

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JANUARY 2, 2024

The new action plan supports the deployment of geothermal energy to meet the needs for renewable heating and cooling for individual and collective buildings in Mainland France. The official launch was headed by Minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

Fintech firm Mode Global Holdings has become the latest in the cryptocurrency sector to commit to net zero emissions before 2030, after signing up to a sector-wide climate initiative backed by the UN this week. App maker and fintech firm becomes latest to join sector-wide Crypto Climate Accord initiative.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

NV Energy is now working toward a statewide goal of 50 percent clean energy by 2030. He particularly liked Tesla’s use of liquid cooling, which Allehaut said is more reliable than fan cooling and draws less parasitic load. But Switch has already achieved 100 percent clean energy by buying on its own.

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