The University of Texas System owns and operates seven (7) Chilled Water TES installation on five separate campuses. Individually, the TES installations have been in service for 6 to 23 years, for a total of 82 years of operating experience (an average of 12 years each, to-date). The CHW TES concept and technology are briefly reviewed. The owner-operator perspective is presented to describe the various drivers for and benefits from its TES applications, including capital and operating costs vs non-TES options, and impacts on efficiency, redundancy, reliability, and resiliency.
Roberto Del Real,Associate Director – Energy Management and Optimization at The University of Texas at Austin ,The University of Texas at Austin
Dennis Bass,Commercial Manager,CB&I Storage Solutions