Case Studies


Case Studies

Ashley Energy

Topics include:

  • Emergency Planning

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Austin Energy

Topics include:

  • DeltaT management via storage, distribution, and billing
  • Water quality control for higher cycle concentrations
  • Baseloading with absorption chillers
  • TES for carbon savings and demand reduction
  • Advanced automation and interconnection for efficiency and safety

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Arizona Western College

Topics include:

  • CHW system optimization
  • Cooling tower upgrades
  • Solar PPAs
  • CHW TES
  • Service contracts
  • Preventative maintenance
  • "Turn it off" marketing campaign 

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Ball State University

Topics include:

  • Geothermal optimization
  • Funding strategies

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Bucknell University

Topics include:

  • TES reducing peak demand
  • Demand management
  • Absorption chilling

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Centrio Chicago

Topics include:

  • Plant interconnection
  • Ice thermal energy storage
  • Annual competitive energy purchasing

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Chicago Midway International Airport

Topics include:

  • Thermal Energy Storage
  • System upgrades that maximize use of existing infrastructure
  • deltaT management
  • N+1 tonnage capacity

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Clemson University

Topics include:

  • Hydrogen pilot and electrolyzer colocation 
  • CHW optimization
  • Collaboration with Duke Energy to establish on-site CHP

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Cornell University

Topics include:

  • Lake source cooling
  • Steam-to-hot water conversion
  • Data collection & transparency 
  • Campus partnerships
  • Utilities integration & carbon pricing

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District Energy Corp.

Topics include:

  • Site-specific DE solutions
  • Ice TES
  • Community-based geoexchange

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District Energy St. Paul

Topics include:

  • Urban tree waste biomass boiler
  • Hot water TES
  • Holistic system management and customer service
  • Staff professional development: Expertise building and deployment

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Duke University

Topics include:

  • Cooling tower water resiliency and conservation
  • Low water mass fast-acting steam boilers
  • Managing buildings during steam-to-hot water transition
  • CHW Delta T management 
  • Solar PPAs

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Milwaukee Regional Medical Center

Topics Include:

  • Plant and distribution design for reliability and resiliency
  • Maintaining service during construction
  • Customer-centric contracting
  • Continuous staff training

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National Western Center (CenTrio)

Topics include:

  • Locational opportunities for waste heat recovery
  • Emphasis on the Project Agreement phase of P3 agreements

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North Carolina State University

Topics include:

  • Thermal Energy Storage
  • Reclaimed Water
  • Performance Contracting

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Pennsylvania State Health, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

Topics include:

  • CHP for reliability
  • CHW optimization
  • TES for demand response
  • Budgeting
  • Training

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Princeton University

Topics include:

  • Installation of a "booster chiller" to improve campus-wide deltaT
  • Participation in the PJM ancillary services market
  • Decarbonization-based infrastructure master planning
  • Carbon price-inclusive lifecycle cost analysis
  • Building-inclusive utility management
  • Funding efficiency measures beyond campus design guidelines

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Stanford University

Topics include:

  • Heat recovery
  • Heating TES
  • Predictive analysis optimization
  • Lifecycle cost considerations

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System 7

Topics include:

  • Elimination of standby boiler loads
  • Installation of steam bypass
  • District cooling optimization
  • CHW dT management

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System 8

Topics include:

  • Public-facing data platforms
  • Energy partnerships
  • Implementing campus energy conservation
  • Campus academic partnerships

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System 16

Topics include:

  • Steam-to-hot water conversion
  • Student, faculty, utility and local government engagement 

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System 24

Topics include:

  • Fully integrated microgrids
  • Dual fuel capabilities for resiliency
  • Onsite solar installation 
  • Master planning 

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System 35

Topics include:

  • Master planning
  • Supply system management
  • Energy purchasing
  • Demand management 

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System 40

Topics include:

  • Fully electric utility plant
  • GIS surveys
  • Budget allocation 

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Thermal Energy Corporation

Topics include:

  • Resiliency planning
  • CHW optimization
  • Purchasing strategy
  • Contractual incentives for customer efficiency
  • Training

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University of Central Florida

Topics include:

  • TES for peak shifting
  • Water reclamation for makeup in cooling towers
  • Collaborative master planning
  • Research involvement

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University of California Davis

Topics include:

  • Phased utility planning and implementation
  • Utility tariff-based optimization
  • deltaT in high-impact buildings
  • Self-funded energy savings team
  • Energy dashboards

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University of Cincinnati

Topics include:

  • Efficiency-based chiller staging
  • Use of magnetic bearing chillers
  • Controls design and management
  • Water reclamation
  • Utility-model operation
  • C0mprehensive ISO interaction
  • Fuel hedging 
  • Apprenticeship

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University of Massachusetts Chan Medical Center

Topics include:

  • Load shedding scheme
  • Utilities collaboration
  • Lifecycle analysis

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University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

Topics include:

  • Inlet air cooling
  • Turbine sizing
  • Distributed management
  • In-house developed Building Automation System

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University of Missouri

Topics include:

  • Realtime market participation
  • Renewable fuel mix
  • Centralized management
  • Utilizing and nurturing in-house expertise 

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University of Texas Medical Branch

Topics include:

  • Risk analysis & mitigation
  • CHW optimization
  • ERCOT market participation
  • Energy savings team

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University of Texas at San Antonio

Topics Include:

  • Reliability and efficiency improvements
  • Master planning
  • Construction management
  • deltaT management
  • Competitive third-party bidding

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University of Virginia

Topics include:

  • Phased LTHW implementation
  • Chiller plant optimization
  • HDPE piping
  • Automated tube cleaning system
  • Strategic planning
  • Personnel development

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University of Washingtion

University of Washington

Topics include:

  • Phase-in centralized cooling
  • Metering and data gathering
  • Re-invest energy savings
  • Effective storytelling

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Wake Forest University

Topics Include:

  • EUI optimization as first step to decarbonization
  • Steam system upgrades
  • Utilities integration with centralized scheduling platform

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Western Michigan University

Topics include:

  • Microgrid optimization
  • Training programs

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