A binding Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been executed for the development of an innovative district cooling solution as the world's first open space cooling geothermal system at the Jnayin Nourah Project, located at the Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University campus in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The MoU brings together four parties. "Best Land for Real Estate and Investment LLC" and "Daim Al Athar for Real Estate Co." together form the Consortium and represent the client and project owner. They are joined by Saudi District Cooling Company (Saudi Tabreed) as the district cooling infrastructure developer, and Strataphy as the provider of PrimeLoop technology.
PrimeLoop is Strataphy's patented geothermal cooling technology, engineered to make shallow geothermal energy commercially viable for large-scale district cooling. Conventional geothermal cooling has long been constrained by deep, costly drilling and the limits of how much heat can be moved at scale. PrimeLoop overcomes those barriers, unlocking the stable thermal capacity of the shallow subsurface to serve developments measured in the thousands of refrigeration tons.
"This is a landmark moment, not just for the Jnayin Nourah Project, but for the global cooling industry. With PrimeLoop, we have made shallow geothermal viable for district cooling at scale, and we are deploying it here as the first open-space cooling application of its kind anywhere in the world. The implications are profound. We can cool an entire development with zero water consumption in a region where every drop counts, while cutting the electricity that cooling demands by up to half. That is not an incremental improvement; it is a fundamental rethinking of how we cool our cities. We are proud to prove, alongside visionaries, that world class performance and genuine sustainability are not competing goals but one and the same," said Ammar Alali, Chief Executive Officer of Strataphy.
