Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant - Orange County Community Geothermal Phase 1CX(s) Applied: B5.1Date: 10/08/2010Location(s): Hillsborough, North CarolinaOffice(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office
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October 8, 2010
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CX(s) Applied: B5.1
Date: 10/08/2010
Location(s): Hillsborough, North Carolina
Office(s): Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Golden Field Office
Orange County is proposing to use Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding to install a ground source heat pump system that will serve the heating and cooling needs for the existing 10,000 square feet of adaptively re-used interior office, common, and public meeting spaces located within the Link Government Services Center. The ground source heat pump system will be a vertical, closed loop system with a capacity of 25 tons. There will be 15 boreholes needed drilled to a depth of 450 feet.