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For years, the buzzwords on the lips of environmental advocates have been geothermal energy, as in energy pumped from deep within the Earth’s aquifers to be used for heating, cooling and electricity generation. Tax credits for geothermal technology are one of the few environmental initiatives that did not suffer major cuts in the so-called “Big, Beautiful Bill,” the budget recently signed into law by President Donald Trump.
A district system that would heat and cool four industrial parcels, as well as hundreds of housing units in multi-family buildings, is moving forward at the north end of the Heights, the new residential community planned at the site of the former Hillcrest Golf Club on the city’s East Side. The St. Paul Port Authority, which purchased the land for redevelopment, will remain a partner in the new “Heights Community Energy” district system alongside Ever-Green Energy, the for-profit affiliate of nonprofit District Energy St. Paul.
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