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Environment & Energy

caraher

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2. I know this is done to some degree already

Reply to hunter (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 6, 2018, 09:24 PM

Jul 2018

Harder to implement at a single-home/residential level, but when there are multiple buildings with a single large-scale chiller this is not an unusual thing to do. They'll run the system when the electric rates are cheapest and during the day dump heat into the stored-up ice.

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