Nordhavn’s FlexHeat: How a Heat Pump Learned to Answer Copenhagen’s Grid in 90 Seconds
A cruise-ship terminal on Copenhagen’s outer waterfront draws its heating and hot water from a pump a few piers away. […]
Places in Transition
Ports, towns and regions reshaped by an industrial or energy transition. The place itself is the story.
Port of Blyth: How a Dying Coal Port Became a Cable Factory for the North Sea
At Blyth, on England’s Northumberland coast, a 69,000-square-meter factory now builds high-voltage subsea cable for offshore wind, on the site of a former coal port a century after its busiest years.
Lancaster, California: How a Solar Permit Became a 45-Minute Errand
In Lancaster, California, a residential solar permit takes about 45 minutes instead of six months. The city invented no technology: it rewrote its own bureaucracy.
Wunsiedel’s Wood Energy Loop: Forest Waste In, Power and Heat Out
In a small Bavarian town, WUN-Bioenergie turns local forest residue into electricity, then uses the leftover heat to press roughly 38,000 tonnes of wood pellets a year that warm three nearby villages.
Inside Powerhouse Brattørkaia: the Trondheim Office Building Built to Produce Twice the Energy It Uses
On a Trondheim harbourfront roof, at 63 degrees north, nearly 3,000 square meters of solar panels help Powerhouse Brattørkaia produce more than twice the electricity it uses on a typical day.