Facilities Dive
Summary
The Hennepin County Energy Center supplies high-pressure steam and chilled water to six county-owned buildings and several private customers in downtown Minneapolis, including the hospital. The county, Minnesota’s largest, aims to reduce the facility’s environmental impact over time as it targets a 45% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050.
Over the longer term, Hennepin County envisions serving a major planned hospital expansion with an electric-powered heat exchange system, backed up by the current mix of electric and fossil-fuel equipment, which could eventually run on renewable natural gas as markets develop for that fuel, Bohn sai
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