Nouvelles de l'industrie
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DBDH HOT|COOL Magazine - Secure the Asset in Your District Heating Network |
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UBC wins innovation award for sustainable facilities management |
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18 juillet 2017 - GF acquiert Urecon - un fabricant de canalisation pré-isolées en Amérique du Nord |
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March 2017 Issue of Sustainable Business Magazine – with feature article on URECON/Kingspan LOGSTOR |
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Montpelier's wood-fired district heating system charges ahead – Watch the VIDEO Kingspan LOGSTOR EN 253 piping supplied by Urecon makes up the underground hot water distribution network in the Vermont capital city. |
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Le prix Best Global Green Project a été décerné au projet Stanford. 
Le projet Stanford SESI a remporté le prix lors de la cérémonie du 2016 ENR Best Projects Awards à New York. Carl Vreugde, directeur sénior, de Urecon, était présent avec toute l’équipe du projet, pour recevoir le prix au nom de Kingspan LOGSTOR. |
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ENR Best of the Best Award The STANFORD Energy System Innovations (SESI) campus project in Palo Alto California has been awarded the prestigious ENR (Engineering News Record) ‘Best of the Best’ award for 2015 in the category ‘Industry Energy’. The team will be honored in New York City on April 7-8 in conjunction with ENR’s Award of Excellence celebration. Urecon supplied over 32km (20 miles) of Kingspan LOGSTOR piping products to this project between 2012 and 2015. It is proving to be the gold standard of steam-to-hot-water-conversion projects in the USA. |
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International District Energy Association (IDEA) to Attend COP21 in Paris |
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December 2015 IDEA released a video outlining how district energy enables a low carbon city through the aggregation of heating and cooling loads of hundreds of buildings, enabling precise control, the adoption of low-carbon technologies, and much higher efficiency than is otherwise possible. The release of this video closely aligns with the emphasis on city-scale planning and local action that will be seen at COP21 in Paris. |
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New Issue of Sustainable Business Magazine – with feature article on URECON |
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Montpelier Declares First District Heating Season A Success Underground network of Kingspan LOGSTOR EN 253 piping installed in 2013. |
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UN says Minnesota district energy utility a global leader |
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Community Energy Development Guide - Canada |
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US Community Energy – Planning, Development and Delivery |
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New District Energy Handbook available for order |
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March 2011 The CanNord 2011 conference on Sustainable Solutions for Urban Life will highlight the challenges in creating sustainable urban solutions. Do not miss out on this unique event to learn from countries and cities at the forefront of eco-friendly urban life. Visit www.cannord.com for more information. |
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March 4, 2011 Please join us on March 4th, 2011 for an interactive seminar, hosted by the Canadian District Energy Association, and involving senior representatives of the Ontario Power Authority and experts in the design and implementation of small scale (< 20 MW) CHP generation. |
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January 24, 2011 The Kingspan LOGSTOR Group signs a five‐year agreement valued at more than DKK 3 billion with the city of Harbin, a city of approx. 10 million inhabitants in the northeastern part of China. |
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December 2009 12.10.2009 – BOSTON -- As Rob Thornton, president of the International District Energy Association, heads to the U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen today, he knows something that many do not: The world’s energy and environmental policy leaders in attendance will be meeting, eating, sleeping and blogging in buildings served with clean thermal energy from one of the world’s best-kept secrets—district heating. |
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"District Energy: Now's the Time" IDEA has produced an exciting nine-minute video, "District Energy:Now's the Time," to help explain district energy technology and its numerous benefits for customers and communities. The video helps introduce district energy to community leaders, campus officials, policy makers and potential customers. Download Medium-Res Video Here (59 MB) |
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April 2009 - Borden Ladner Gervais LLP On March 31, 2009, U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Henry A. Waxman and Energy and Environment Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Edward J. Market released a discussion draft of The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009. Find out why Canadian companies should pay particular attention to the domestic competitiveness provisions of the Draft. |
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April 2009 - Danish Board of District Heating EnerWorks officials have their eyes on a solar thermal venture in tiny Okotoks, Alberta. For the past year, the Drake Landing subdivision in the prairie town has been a testing ground for an innovative variation on traditional district heating — one that sources and stores heat with solar panels and geothermal tubing. |
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March/ April 2009 - Summit Find out how to properly evaluate a district energy proposal through life-cycle analysis. This process accounts for all of the costs associated with producing space heating, domestic hot water and cooling on-site (commodities, operation, maintenance and capital) over a 20 to 40 year period and compares it to the district energy proposal. |
March 2009 - New Brunswick Business Journal The general manager of the East Papers division of Fraser Papers in Edmundston wonders whether there is enough biomass in the province – since other firms are eyeing cogeneration as a way to insulate themselves from ever-increasing power rates. |
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March 2009 - CBC News The Green Energy Act the Ontario government introduced in late February covers a lot of ground. One element that might not have caught many people's attention is provision for a smart grid - a modernized electrical distribution system designed to support electric cars and co-generation projects and make electricity supply more reliable. |
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March 2009 - Canadian District Energy Association The CDEA submitted comments to the Ministry of Energy and Infrastructure on Bill 150, the Green Energy Act, highlighting the potential of district energy and combined heat and power. |
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March 2, 2009 - IDEA Association Update The US Department of Energy has posted this Notice of Intent to Issue a Funding Opportunity Announcement under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e. The Stimulus Bill).
The DOE program will provide $106 Million in Stimulus Funding for District Energy, Combined Heat and Power and Waste Energy Recovery projects. There is an additional $50 Million in program funding for Efficient Industrial Equipment.
A notable change from the earlier version of this program is that eligibility has now been expanded to include public and private entities. Please visit the link for additional details. |
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February 2009 - Canadian District Energy Association The CDEA supports the stated intent of the Green Energy Act to remove policy and regulatory constraints that currently stand in the way of accelerating the uptake of renewable and alternative energy sources such as biomass, wind and solar projects that will benefit consumers throughout Ontario. |
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January 27, 2009 Budget 2009 provides a comprehensive plan to stimulate
our economy, restore confidence, support Canadian families
during the current global downturn and invest in |
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Jan 19, 2009 Power Up Canada - A bold federal initiative to supercharge growth in the green economy, harmonize with Obama’s five million jobs surge, and incentivize provincial action. |
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Dec 29, 2008 Replacing the 1984 Design Guideline for Drinking Water Systems, the revised guidelines, Design Guidelines for Drinking-Water Systems 2008, include up-to-date engineering design recommendations for the treatment, storage and distribution of drinking water using established technologies applicable to Ontario conditions. The guidelines clarify the process by which new technologies may be established for full scale application in Ontario. The guidelines include new and updated information that reflects current Ontario practice, applicable legislation and current ministry policies. Comments were received from eleven (11) different groups including municipalities, engineers, environmental and legal associations and operating agencies related to the Design Guidelines for Drinking-Water Systems.
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