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Proposers outline on‑site combined heat and power and a possible downtown microgrid node
Summary
Delta Engineering and partners proposed a small combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) generator for the DeWitt House and said the system could feed into an Energize Ithaca district node with NYSEG and partners; committee members questioned generator sizing, solar potential and alternatives such as geothermal heat pumps.
Engineers for the DeWitt House proposal told the Old Library committee the building is an opportunity to site a small combined cooling, heat and power (CCHP) unit that would provide electricity, reusable heat and absorption chilling for cooling — and could, in time, become a node for a wider downtown district energy or microgrid.
Don Harris of Delta Engineering described the approach in straightforward terms: "We're gonna take natural gas from the street. We're gonna put it into this generator. We're gonna generate power to the building. We're gonna…
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