The pending reconstruction of West Superior Street offers a unique opportunity for the city to consider installing an innovative new heating system that would be the first in the U.S.
In a press conference held in Lincoln Park on Tuesday, Duluth Mayor Emily Larson joined other city officials and members from Ever-Green Energy, Ecolibrium 3, and WLSSD to talk about a US Department of Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office award received to design a geothermal district heating system using waste heat from WLSSD in Duluth.
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Federal funds will help Duluth design a system to use leftover energy from a wastewater treatment plant to heat hundreds of buildings in the burgeoning Lincoln Park neighborhood. One advocate says it could become a national model.