Mission Bay District Heating and Cooling Feasibility Study

Technical Report · Thu Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5970394· OSTI ID:5970394

The project known as Mission Bay is currently one of the largest urban redevelopment projects in the nation. In the planning stages for over six years, the 300 acre site will ultimately support a new, high density, mixed use community containing as many as 8000 new housing units and 6.8 million square feet of commercial space. In 1987, the City's Public Utilities Commission, Bureau of Energy Conservation prepared energy design recommendations for the Mission Bay project. These recommendations became known as the Energy Plan for Mission Bay. One of the recommendations of the Energy Plan was that district heating and cooling be carefully examined for its energy efficiency and environmental benefits, and for its positive impact on the local economic development of the new Mission Bay community. This report presents the findings of both the work on district cooling funded by USDOE, and on the studies of district heating funded by PG&E. These have been combined together to provide a comprehensive feasibility study on a centralized cooling and heating system for the Mission Bay development. In May 1989, the City of San Francisco and Pacific Gas and Electric Company distributed a Request for Qualifications for experienced engineering firms to assess the economic and technical feasibility of District Heating and Cooling (DHC) at Mission Bay. VBB Pacific Planners/Engineers/Economist was selected to perform this feasibility study. The objective of this study was to examine the viability of a DHC system for Phase I and II of Mission Bay's planned construction while allowing for future phased expansion to the remainder of the Mission Bay development.

• Research Organization: San Franciso Bureau of Energy Conservation, CA (United States); Pacific Gas & Electric Company, San Francisco, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: FG01-88CE26571
• OSTI ID: 5970394
• Report Number(s): DOE/CE/26571--T7; ON: DE91009991
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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Consumption
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BUILDINGS
COOLING
COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS
DEMAND
DISTRICT COOLING
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ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY DEMAND
ENERGY MANAGEMENT
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
HEATING
MANAGEMENT
PLANNING
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