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California utility augments 1,800 air conditioning units with “ice battery”
A Santa Barbara-based company called Ice Energy has partnered with NRG Energy to deliver 1,800 “ice batteries” to commercial and industrial buildings served by electric utility Southern California Edison (SCE). The units are expected to reduce air conditioning bills by up to 40 percent and eliminate 200,000 tons of CO2 over the next 20 years.
Ice Energy has been building ice-based cooling systems since the early 2000s. Much like pumped storage or compressed air “batteries,” Ice Energy essentially stores electricity by drawing power from the grid at non-peak times to freeze water in a special container. Then at peak times, when the cost of electricity is high and grid operators are struggling to keep up with demand, Ice Energy’s systems kick in and use that block of ice to cool the space that the air conditioning unit normally serves.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @10:38PM (1 child)
Installed by H1Bs, Maintained by H1Bs.
SoCal is NoJob for Americans.
The Future of America for Americans, as predicted 30 years ago...
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(Score: 2) by kaszz on Saturday May 06 2017, @11:54PM
Select another installer?
Maybe there's a new "committee of un-american activities" ..? :p
One that would happily use the legal arm to make them wish Americans did the job.