UK – Star Renewable Energy and E.ON are set to collaborate in a district heating project in Exeter which aims to demonstrate how heat pumps can replace CHP for lower cost and lower carbon heating. The project will feature an ...
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Chaudes-Aigues: France’s first heating network
In XIV century France during the reign of Philip VI of Valois, the village of Chaudes-Aigues saw the birth of the first urban heating network, even though the term renewable energy had not yet been coined. Consisting of wooden ...
The A to Z of Biomass
Biomass is a major source of green electricity production. But what exactly is biomass? The term encompasses a variety of organic materials, from wood chips to animal meal, used to produce electricity and heat. What are its benefits? What place ...
The A to Z of Cogeneration
Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat in the same installation. The result of this technology – increasingly used in France (Le Havre, Seine-Maritime) and Europe (Scarlino, Italy) – is economic heating networks. How do we build a ...
The A to Z of Geothermal Energy
At Soultz-sous-Forêts as in Maisons-Alfort in France, geothermal energy has established itself as a reliable, economical and durable source of heat generation. This technique of recovering heat from below ground level, is nevertheless still quite unknown to the general public. ...