Egg Geo LLC will consider the feasibility of a thermal vitality community utilizing geothermal and waste warmth for the Penn South Group in Manhattan, New York.
Egg Geo, LLC is performing a Thermal Power Community (TEN) feasibility examine to find out the technical and financial potential of geothermal and waste warmth restoration for a cluster of buildings throughout the Penn South Cooperative Housing Group in New York Metropolis. The mission is being performed with assist from the New York State Power Analysis and Growth Authority (NYSERDA).
Thermal vitality networks are large-scale infrastructure initiatives that join a number of buildings utilizing a shared piping community that distributes thermal vitality from sources equivalent to geothermal boreholes, floor water, waste warmth, and wastewater.
The mission web site, situated in a deprived group, consists of a mixture of industrial and residential buildings, together with buildings that serve low- to moderate-income residents. The buildings are situated throughout 5 metropolis blocks from twenty ninth St to twenty third St between eighth and ninth Avenues in Manhattan. The group presently makes use of pure fuel for heating and to supply electrical energy in its Mixed Warmth and Energy (CHP) plant.
Penn South first engaged Egg Geo to discover methods for constructing decarbonization in an city atmosphere that would cut back greenhouse fuel emissions and assist obtain compliance with Native Regulation 97. Egg Geo will examine the potential to retire and change the onsite combustion gear with a thermal vitality community that makes use of centralized floor supply warmth pumps, also referred to as geothermal warmth pumps, and low- and no-drill options, equivalent to wastewater, for heating and cooling.
A thermal vitality community would enable Penn South to avoid wasting round 350,000 MMBtu (102 million kWh) of thermal vitality, cut back greenhouse fuel emissions round 18,400 metric tons of CO2 equal, and retire onsite cooling towers, saving as much as 280,000 gallons of freshwater per day.
Presently, there are a number of constructing homeowners in and round Penn South which have proven curiosity and assist for the feasibility examine by submitting letters of assist and offering vitality information to facilitate the examine.
Extra info on the Group Warmth Pumps System and different thermal vitality initiatives awarded underneath this program is out there on the NYSERDA’s web page.
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