The Penn South Cooperative Housing Neighborhood in Manhattan, New York Metropolis (supply: Challenge web site)
Egg Geo LLC will consider the feasibility of a thermal vitality community utilizing geothermal and waste warmth for the Penn South Neighborhood in Manhattan, New York.
Egg Geo, LLC is performing a Thermal Vitality Community (TEN) feasibility examine to find out the technical and financial potential of geothermal and waste warmth restoration for a cluster of buildings inside the Penn South Cooperative Housing Neighborhood in New York Metropolis. The undertaking is being performed with assist from the New York State Vitality Analysis and Improvement 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.Â
The undertaking web site, positioned 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 positioned throughout 5 metropolis blocks from twenty ninth St to twenty third St between eighth and ninth Avenues in Manhattan. The group at the moment makes use of pure fuel for heating and to provide 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 scale 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 called geothermal warmth pumps, and low- and no-drill options, equivalent to wastewater, for heating and cooling.
A thermal vitality community would permit Penn South to save lots of 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. Â
Presently, there are a number of constructing house owners 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 data on the Neighborhood Warmth Pumps System and different thermal vitality initiatives awarded below this program is obtainable on the NYSERDA’s web page.
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