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The city of Rochester is expected to receive $2 million in federal dollars to build up geothermal and solar energy in the city. It’s part of the city’s District Energy Project for downtown Rochester.
The goal of the project is it create a entire district of buildings with renewable energy, starting in downtown Rochester with buildings like city hall and expanding outwards.
That’s going to look like installing solar panels and systems to use heat from the earth’s crust to heat buildings.
City leaders were planning to get some money from the state for the project, but after the legislature didn’t pass a bonding bill, they had to look for funds elsewhere.
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