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Implementing RED directives – Adven insights from Estonia

This year, heat producers in Estonia had to, for the first time, demonstrate compliance with the Renewable Energy Directive. The audit results published for the year 2023 show that Adven's renewable fuel for energy solutions fully complies with the established sustainability criteria.  From the beginning of 2023, the Renewable Energy…

Thermal engineering specialist Jānis Bāliņš likes efficiency

My motivation comes from the desire to implement more efficient processes. I am Jānis Bāliņš and I work as a heat energy specialist in the Valmiera team. I am inspired to see how effectively we work - whether the processes and daily work that the technical personnel invest in improving,…

New boiler house in Sigulda increases energy efficiency

In February this year, a modernized boiler house was inaugurated in Sigulda, Latvia, by Adven, marking a significant step towards ensuring sustainable energy production in the area. During the modernization project, the old equipment has been replaced,and significantly increasing the efficiency of heat production and ensuring the compliance of Sigulda…

Carbon neutrality increases existing property value

Not only new buildings can hold a low climate impact. Most of Adven´s geoenergy customers in the Nordic countries have switched energy solution for their already existing commercial building to improve energy efficiency, lower CO2, and reduce operational costs. The cherry on top is the fact that a more sustainable…

Did you know this about geoenergy?

Geoenergy, geothermal energy, geoheat – a beloved child has many names. Geoenergy is a heating system powered by heat pumps that utilizes heat energy stored in the bedrock. Energy can be utilized when an energy well, a geowell, is drilled in the ground, the depth of which normally varies between…

Biofuels replace natural gas in Staffanstorp

Adven continues its journey towards phasing out the use of fossil fuels in its district heating production in Sweden and Finland. Next in line is a reused pellet/wood chip boiler that reduces the use of natural gas in Staffanstorp. At the beginning of December, the recycled 2.5 MW pellet/wood chip…

Preparing industries for the end of carbon emissions

Making investments in tough times is a good idea in theory but more difficult in practice. Yet there is one project that the EU is demanding that industries prioritize. With the current reduction of emission allowances on the market - there will be zero left by 2039. “Companies covered by…

Ilmalanrinne will soon use renewable geoenergy

A parking garage that has been in continuous use, drilling geowells to a depth of up to 600 meters, building an energy center in a former storage space - these are just a few of the phases that describe the geoenergy project that began last summer in Ilmala, Helsinki, Finland.…