Jax Today
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JEA, the city and Jax Stadium LLC, a development company controlled by Jacksonville Jaguars owner Shad Khan, have finalized an agreement that will pump in chilled water from the Hogan’s Creek District Energy System plant to cool the complex.
The Jacksonville City Council unanimously approved legislation Tuesday finalizing the deal. That decision comes just a few months after JEA crews completed chilled water connections to Khan’s Four Seasons hotel and office building under construction across the street from the stadium.
“It frees up a lot of space within the stadium where they don’t have to have their own chillers. Because right now there are huge sections of that stadium that you can’t see with cooling towers and chillers that provide the cooling,” Daniel Weaver, the city-owned utility ‘s District Energy operations manager, said. “So, in the future, we’re going to do it.”
During a tour of JEA’s Downtown chilled water plant in July, Weaver told Jacksonville Today that the new demand in the Sports and Entertainment District could signal faster growth for the JEA service that today services a handful of large commercial and government customers.
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