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Finnish geothermal company targets international expansion

ThinkGeoEnergy

Finnish geothermal energy company QHeat has announced an international expansion, offering its patented technology to international markets. QHeat’s patented geothermal heating and cooling system reduces heating emissions from buildings by up to 90%.

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Greentown Startups Share Insights on the Buildings Sector?

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs supports startups that are decarbonizing the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and building resilient communities. First up is the buildings sector. Buildings represent a very big piece of the energy pie—about 40 percent of U.S.

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Construction completed on New York City’s largest geothermal building

ThinkGeoEnergy

A geothermal system was not part of the initial plans for the project, but the developers chose this technology to make the building operations more sustainable. The geothermal system is expected to help the building reduce its carbon emissions by 60%. This is expected to be completed by next year.

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Interview – Celsius Energy and decarbonizing buildings using shallow geothermal systems

ThinkGeoEnergy

Heating and cooling buildings accounts for about a third of the final energy consumption globally and 30% of energy-related CO 2 emissions. With global temperatures rising, the need for cooling is expected to increase dramatically in the next few years. Heating and cooling buildings is 80% of that energy used.

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Geothermal well drilled for energy storage of waste incineration plant in Finland

ThinkGeoEnergy

A 2000-meter geothermal well was drilled for the use of the Lounavoima waste incineration plant in the town of Salo, Finland. The well provides energy storage for the waste incineration plant, allowing for optimized operations despite fluctuations in heat consumption.

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London’s Silvertown taps E.ON for ectogrid heat sharing network

Smart Energy International

The 760,000m² Silvertown site will be the UK’s first development of E.ON’s ectogrid system, an energy sharing heat network based on heat pump technology. Each connected building sends excess heating or cooling to other buildings as needed. Public utility company E.ON Have you read: E.ON Additionally, E.ON

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The 10 home appliances that Consume the most energy

Renewable Energy World

Contributed by Adam Graham, a construction industry analyst at Fixr.com. When it comes to residential energy consumption, people are constantly striving for ways to reduce their monthly bills and energy usage and wastage. By far the biggest user of energy in homes are heaters, accounting for 31.3% of the total.