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Central Washington University outlines GeoEco geothermal plan to cut campus emissions, tie projects to curriculum
Summary
Central Washington University told the Senate committee it plans a 15-year decarbonization strategy featuring open-loop GeoEco plants that tap a local aquifer (about 68'72'F at 500'800 feet), build a GeoEco plant serving the new North Academic Commons and pursue campus solar and battery storage to offset electrical demand.
Central Washington University presented a 15-year decarbonization plan to the Senate Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee that places geothermal technology and campus solar at the center of its strategy to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
Delano Palmer, director of capital planning and projects at Central Washington University, described the GeoEco approach as an open-loop groundwater heat-exchange system. "This is an open loop system. So it's a non consumptive system," Palmer said, explaining that water drawn from a local aquifer at about 68 to 72 degrees Fahrenheit is pushed through a heat exchanger in a GeoEco plant and then reinjected…
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