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According to the ENGIE’s webpage, “District heating and cooling systems” (2013) ENGIE aims to provide comfort to the public and conserve nature. ENGIE was awarded to be the “world’s largest independent provider of urban cooling networks”. Currently, they are managing 320 systems globally and can be seen in France, the USA and even in Malaysia. The webpage focuses on two systems, heating and cooling. The heating system focuses on warming up the building or city with the help of hot water and surcharge steam. It uses available resources for heat generation such as natural gas. However, the cooling network supplies cold water to the air conditioning system. In this system, distribution facilities and cold water production is needed for the services. Through the webpage, ENGIE's cooling systems help in making a city a green city in terms of energy efficiency, reduce operating costs and conserving nature.

There are a lot of key features of cooling systems that help a city turn green city. ENGIE states that the cooling networks assist in creating an energy-efficient city. According to the webpage, those countries that adopt the cooling systems managed to increase their energy efficiency by half compared to not adopting the systems. Now most countries are slowly partnering with ENGIE to design a district cooling system. For example, Singapore teamed up with ENGIE to create their first district to adopt it. The district will consist of different facilities, Jurong Town Corporation and Singapore Institute of Technology.


ENGIE district cooling systems also help in lowering the operating cost of buildings. In Malaysia, the cooling system located in Cyberjaya saved more than $200,000 just by having it. The energy bill has been reduced as the cooling system uses a smaller amount of water and electricity. Whereas, those buildings that did not adopt the system suffer a larger amount of bills.


One of the main objectives of ENGIE is to conserve nature. It further increases its effort in decarbonisation to match with the Paris Agreement. ENGIE make some important changes to achieve their final outcome. The cooling system helps in reducing carbon emissions to the public as ENGIE focus on how the system is a low-carbon activity. 


Therefore, the cooling systems help countries to achieve the green city title as there are a lot of beneficial outcomes after adopting the cooling systems.




Reference:


  1. ENGIE (n.d), District heating and cooling networks for an energy- efficient city

https://www.engie.com/en/activites/heating-cooling-networks

  1. ENGIE (2019), ENGIE wins project for the design of the District Cooling System in Punggol Digital District in Singapore
    https://www.engie.com/en/news/project-cooling-system-punggol-digital-district-singapore

  2. ENGIE (2019) , District Cooling
    https://www.engie-sea.com/district-cooling

  3. ENGIE (2021), ENGIE appointed by JTC to build, own and operate landmark disstrict cooling system in Punggole digital district https://www.engie-sea.com/news-inner/ENGIE-Appointed-by-JTC-to-Build-Own-and-Operate-Landmark-District-Cooling-System-in-Punggol-Digital-District

  4. ENGIE (n.d), Our commitments for the climate https://www.engie.com/en/group/our-vision/commitments-for-the-climate

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