The Miami College in Oxford, Ohio will quickly start drilling for a future geothermal heating and cooling system to exchange an current pure gasoline facility.
The Miami College on Oxford, Ohio will quickly start drilling for a geothermal heating and cooling system that can substitute the present pure gas-powered system on the North Chiller Plant. Work is anticipated to being by the summer time of 2024 and full operations is by the spring of 2026 is being focused.
Greater than 500 wells can be drilled to a depth of 850 toes (~259 meters) within the entrance garden of Millett Corridor. Warmth from these boreholes will then be directed to the soon-to-be-renamed North Geothermal Plant which can provide clear heating and cooling to many North Campus buildings, together with Millett Corridor and the Pupil Athlete Growth Heart.
Miami College goals to warmth 43 buildings, or 39% of the campus buildings, with geothermal power by 2026. That is consistent with the college’s 2040 carbon neutrality purpose, a big enabler of which is the electrification of heating and cooling methods and utilization of geothermal heating and cooling.
The college expects prices to go down as soon as the geothermal plant begins operations. With the cooling tower serving the chiller plant not essential, utilization of chemical compounds and water for steam manufacturing can be drastically decreased.
Transitioning to geothermal will take the Miami College one step nearer to the targets of carbon neutrality and being an exemplary establishment within the pursuit of decarbonization.
In late 2023, drilling work began on the Oberlin Faculty Conservatory in Oberlin, Ohio for the same geothermal heating and cooling system.
Supply: The Miami Pupil
