A failing steam factory that has provided heat for more than a century to buildings in Downtown Pittsburgh is “beyond repair,” but plans are afoot for a national energy company to replace it with a ...

Current global power generation market conditions, driven by an abundance of natural gas fuel, recent advances in gas turbine technologies and more efficient combined-cycle component operation, have ...

For more than a century, many of Pittsburgh’s office buildings in the Golden Triangle have been kept warm using steam heat generated at a North Shore factory that is conveyed Downtown. But the ...

City hall has to cough up nearly $8.5 million to replace the steam heat system under its own roof – as well as in several prominent downtown civic buildings – and that has politicians steamed. The ...

Old boiler rooms are often home to steam-heating boilers. Older cities are loaded with these and lots of people — knuckleheads included — have had decades to mess with what the “dead men” once ...

Marquette University is exploring whether it could tap the power of the earth to heat and cool buildings on campus. The university this spring is launching a study, in partnership with neighboring ...