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Could a district heating system work for WWU?

Waterfront project could heat 'half of Bellingham'

PSE's Encogen Generating System letting out fumes into the sky.
There's enough waste heat from PSE's Encogen Generating System to heat all of Western Washington University, the updated Bellingham waterfront and parts of the city of Bellingham. (Hailey Hoffman/Cascadia Daily News)
By Julia Lerner Staff Reporter
A major underground project at Bellingham’s waterfront could help upgrade Western Washington University’s heating system, a 75-year-old mammoth steam plant responsible for 97% of the university’s greenhouse gas emissions.  The project, an underground district heating system designed to heat and cool new construction, is in the works at Bellingham’s waterfront after years of planning, design and development from the Port and City of Bellingham. Sometime in the future, it could pro

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