System Capacity
The University owns, maintains and operates a district cooling system comprised of 5 production plants, a thermal energy storage system, a distribution system with over 22 miles of underground piping and building bridge systems consisting of over 150 bridges servicing over 140 locations. The Tomkins Operation Center included in the list below, can be run as a production plant or to recharge the Thermal Storage System. See How Things Work for an illustration of how the District Cooling System interrelates with our other campus energy systems.
| Production Plant |
Date Built |
Electrical Centrifugal Chillers |
Steam Absorption Chillers |
Tons Capacity |
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| North Chiller Plant |
1970 |
8 |
3 |
12,750 |
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| Cobb Chiller Plant |
2006 |
5 |
10,000 |
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| Tomkins Center |
2006 |
3 |
6,000 |
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| South Chiller Plant |
1976 |
10 |
2 |
19,000 |
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| East Chiller Plant |
1983 |
3 |
2,635 |
The University also operates and maintains remote electrical centrifugal chiller systems which generally serve individual building(s) that cannot be serviced by the distribution system.
| Remote System |
Tons Capacity |
Remote System |
Tons Capacity |
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| Brooks Hall |
50 |
440 West Franklin |
253 |
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| Aycock Family Medicine |
187 |
Radio Station |
80 |
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| Child Development Center |
80 |
Friday Center |
875 |
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| General Administration |
265 |
Facility Services |
394 |
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| Mobile |
185 |
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