Cooling as a Service holds innumerable advantages, but barriers such as limited awareness, perceived complexity of performance-based contracts, financing constraints and uncertainty over long-term savings have slowed its wider adoption, says Dr Angela Fandino of Engineering Sustainable Futures (ESF)
Posted: November 10, 2025
In an eclectic interaction with Surendar Balakrishnan of Climate Control Middle East, H.E. Ahmad Bin Shafar, the CEO of Empower, highlights key milestones achieved as a District Cooling utility, the impact of the IPO and the technological innovations that have broken down barriers for the advancement of District Cooling. Excerpts from the interview…
Posted: August 1, 2025
Receives top prize in ‘Company of the Year’ and ‘Executive Achievement of the Year’ categories
Posted: March 2, 2023
It is high time plant owners and operators wise up to reality
Posted: October 3, 2022
Gary Bradshaw says plant operators can have the best of both worlds by hard-wiring their critical systems to an annunciator and also networking them back to their SCADA system.
Posted: September 12, 2021
WEG’s SSW900 soft-starters rescue national power system from natural disaster
Posted: May 16, 2021
Equipment operators and plant owners are in denial or just plain unaware that most chillers are operating above their design efficiency, says Dan Mizesko
Posted: May 6, 2021
To date, 52 buildings have been connected to the new plant; 14 are expected to be connected in the next two years, utility says
Posted: February 17, 2021