Office space, retail stores, hospitality and multifamily buildings all benefit from geothermal systems. Customers often cite benefits of the technology regarding lowering costs by accessing the Investment Tax Credit, decarbonizing their operating footprint to hit sustainability goals, and system longevity.
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Case Study: Lakewood Memorial Sanctuary →
Commercial Real Estate Projects →
Elementary, middle, and high schools require HVAC systems that facilitate learning for students. Funding for systems is often at a district level and may come with sustainability and longevity mandates. Projects such as this are common for Darcy as K-12 buildings are often in use for many decades and seek sustainable operating footprints.
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Educational campuses often have many different facility types including research facilities, dormitories, libraries, offices, athletic facilities and more. Planning and executing the systems required for different types of buildings often uses central plants or decentralized approaches for singular buildings.
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Case Study: U of M Offsite Collections Facility →
College & University Projects →
Hospitals, clinics, and other healthcare facilities often have specific requirements for HVAC. They are most often cooling dominant with requirements for redundancy of critical operations and often have load profiles that deviate from other building types.
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The largest owners of buildings are government entities. They commonly have sustainability goals and seek the lowest total cost of ownership as they have facilities intended to be used and useful for decades. Many today are considering thermal energy networks as key infrastructure in the energy transition from fossil fuels to an electric economy.
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Case Study: City of Rochester →
Government & Public Sector Projects →
Industrial manufacturing facilities have high energy requirements, both for process feedstocks and often heating and cooling loads due to operations temperature variation from operations. These businesses often require low costs of energy to maintain profit margins and provide workforce a comfortable working environment.
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Manufacturing Projects →
The incredible growth in Data Centers has become a large part of the economy. These facilities require immense cooling capacity and energy throughput to operate. Design and operation of geothermal for these projects requires innovative approaches and specialized equipment to construct.
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Data Center Projects →
The amazing part of geothermal technology is how it can scale up or down for different use cases. Thermal Energy Networks or “TENs” are utility scale groupings of geothermal resources connected over large distances and capable of providing thermal resources to multiple off taking entities. These systems are likely to be large part of the energy transition as public utility commissions, governments, and campus systems implement the technology to electrify heating and cooling of buildings.
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Case Study: The Heights →
Thermal Energy Networks Projects →
Darcy can determine feasibility, economics, and groundwater performance for your building type and location.
