The Challenge
Upgrade a level 1 trauma center’s aging system to provide a more resilient, reliable, and efficient system that supports their needs today and allows for increased capacity well into the future.
The Solution
Develop, finance, construct, own, and operate the UPMC Mercy central utility plant that provides 100% of the cooling, heating, and back-up power needs to their 404-bed healthcare campus.
Interconnect the UPMC Mercy system with Duquesne University’s system (also owned and operated by Cordia) to achieve maximum reliability and efficiency.
The Result
Through a 20-year energy services agreement (ESA) and following a 2-year design and build phase, UPMC Mercy has an always-on system, which produces:
150,000 pounds of steam per hour
3x the cooling power than they had before
7.5 MW of emergency power
Innovation Highlights:
Designing, constructing, and financing Sun Devil Energy Center, ASU’s CHP plant.
Ensuring CHP continuous compliance with federal reliability requirements for ASU’s critical biomedical research, which provides heating and cooling to campus.
Offsetting plant emissions through ASU’s onsite, natural gas-fueled solar generation.
Designing a future-ready facility that can expand over time (Case-in-point: Capacity doubled to 16 MW in 2019 with the addition of a new turbine).
Through Cordia’s system acquisition and management, both UPMC and Duquesne are now able to worry less about energy distribution and capital shortages and focus more on the people they serve in their community.
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Want to learn more about how Cordia could help your institution? We’d love to talk. From acquiring and operating existing systems to designing and installing innovative solutions, our team has developed projects across a wide variety of types and scopes.