Carbondale’s Third Street Center reaches 100 percent efficiency, renewable energy milestone

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[font face=Serif][font size=5]Carbondale’s Third Street Center reaches 100 percent efficiency, renewable energy milestone[/font]

Cam Burns | Fri., June 21, 2013 @ 5:58 pm


Third Street Center, Carbondale.

[font size=3]For the entire week of June 3–9, Carbondale’s Third Street Center became a net electricity generator, getting more than 100 percent of its operating electricity from the sun and using no natural gas for the first time in the building’s history—in short, it ran entirely on renewables and energy efficiency.

Building manager Mark Taylor and the staff of CLEER observed the milestone while reviewing Third Street energy use on the Energy Navigator, a system that records data about energy use in public buildings throughout Garfield County.

The achievement is considerable given the hundreds of community members who use the building on a weekly basis and the more than three-dozen tenants.

The building was renovated in 2010 with a deliberate focus on being as energy, water, and resource efficient as possible to keep rents low for tenants and be a model of sustainability. Designed to maximize daylighting and retrofitted with energy efficient lighting, the building also has a limit on the amount of electricity per square foot that tenants can use. Another feature is the 52 kilowatts of rooftop solar panels, available through a solar lease arranged by Sol Energy, a tenant in the Third Street Center.

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