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Denver Looks to Sewers, Geothermal Wells for Downtown Energy Network

By District Energy posted 18 hours ago

  

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Denver officials are exploring an infrastructure strategy that could offer a blueprint for retrofitting dense downtowns.

The city is advancing a pilot project that will use geothermal wells and heat recovered from wastewater to create a shared ambient-loop network between two downtown buildings and a sidewalk snowmelt system. It plans to later expand to as many as 10 municipal buildings, with an estimated cost between approximately $280 million and $320 million over the next decade. City officials plan to reuse portions of Denver's existing district infrastructure where possible to build the network, rather than build from scratch.

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