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Decarbonising heating and cooling integral to reaching net zero targets, says Glasgow industrial engineering leader

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Friday, October 22, 2021

Essential to our everyday life, the cold chain (food production and storage), pharmaceuticals, data centres, comfort cooling and heating are both omnipresent and destructive.

Key Points: 
  • Essential to our everyday life, the cold chain (food production and storage), pharmaceuticals, data centres, comfort cooling and heating are both omnipresent and destructive.
  • In fact cooling and heating are estimated to account for around half of the end-use energy worldwide and 40% of its energy-related global carbon dioxide (CO2) emission.
  • More measures to avoid locking-in higher emissions are required in this area to help countries move towards carbon neutral heating and cooling.
  • Furthermore, if powered by renewable electricity, both refrigeration systems and heat pumps offer low cost, zero carbon heating and cooling".

Star Renewable Energy sponsors site visit to Scotland's first large-scale water source heat pump

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Friday, September 17, 2021

GLASGOW, U.K., Sept. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The renewable arm of Star Refrigeration Star Renewable Energy is sponsoring a site visit to the Queens Quay water source heat pump in Clydebank.

Key Points: 
  • GLASGOW, U.K., Sept. 17, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The renewable arm of Star Refrigeration Star Renewable Energy is sponsoring a site visit to the Queens Quay water source heat pump in Clydebank.
  • It was developed and delivered through a collaborations between West Dunbartonshire Council, Vital Energi and Star Renewable Energy.
  • The heat pump works by leveraging ambient heat from the Clyde Estuary and using ammonia heat pumps to capture that energy, which makes it an extremely low-carbon method of heat generation.
  • The impressive environmental credentials of the Queens Quay heat pump make it an excellent location for a site visit for delegates to the Low-Carbon Heat Conference 2021.