District heating systems offer a great way to improve fuel utilization at power plants. Two projects—one in the U.S. and one in Russia—that involved adding gas turbines and heat recovery steam ...

If you’re one of the rare regular readers, you know by now that I like steam heat. If asked why, I would say it’s the uniqueness of the jobs I look at. I don’t think that they are ever the same, and I ...

In the February 2022 issue of POWER, an overview of existing district heating systems that utilize nuclear power for their energy source was presented and best practices of successful installations ...

District energy (DE) systems supply heating and cooling from a central energy source to multiple customers (commercial, residential, and industrial). In the U.S., the beginning of district heating (DH ...

Finnish energy firm Fortum has commenced operations at its large-scale heat pump plants Kolabacken, Kirkkonummi, and Hepokorpi, Espoo, that will utilize excess heat from two Microsoft data centers ...

BPU District Heating customers will be seeing more efforts to track down issues in the district heating system, including some work that starts Monday. Customers received a letter March 18 discussing ...

Finish startup Steady Energy aims to build a nuclear district heating plant using a planned LDR-50 small modular reactor (SMR) by 2030. The company was spun out from the VTT Technical Research Centre ...

Embedding local, decentralized heat pumps (HPs) into a district heating system could cut operating expenses by 24%, according to new research from the Aalto University in Finland. The scientists said ...

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and ...

Slovenské elektrárne has outlined details of a scheme to deliver heat for the town of Tlmače from the Mochovce nuclear power plant. (Image: Slovenské elektrárne) The aim would be to use 'waste' heat ...

Datacentres in Nordic countries are connected to multiple district heating networks. The UK’s neighbouring countries, Ireland and France, also have projects. But the UK hasn’t kept pace. Will that ...

An international research group has investigated how PV-powered heat pumps and district heating could be combined to heat a multi-apartment building in Sweden and have found that, of the three ...