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Lansing, Michigan
Study & planning
Community utility
2.8 million square feet
140
Master plan for downtown core serving businesses, college, manufacturing, and State Capital
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Downtown Lansing is served by a local district energy system owned and operated by the Lansing Board of Water & Light (BWL). BWL is a municipally-owned utility that supplies electricity, water, steam, and chilled water to the community with a mission of providing safe, reliable, and affordable utility products and services to the Greater Lansing Region.
To support this mission, BWL is working with its consultant, Ever-Green Energy, to develop an energy master plan that will identify preferred strategies for advancing its district energy systems.
Lansing, Michigan
Study & planning
Community utility
2.8 million square feet
140
Master plan for downtown core serving businesses, college, manufacturing, and State Capital
Download Project Summary
Ever-Green led an energy master planning process that evaluated the potential of the BWL systems, including:
A system-specific master plan is critically important to carry energy system advancement projects from
development through implementation while mitigating risk and maximizing efficiencies.
In the fall of 2019, the Ever-Green team gathered information to learn from the experiences of the BWL staff and customers, in an effort to better understand strengths and weaknesses of the current system, and begin evaluating opportunities to improve the system.
Throughout this effort, our team worked with customers and BWL staff to devise a strategic plan for the system that balances system reliability and rate stability, while identifying opportunities to increase system efficiencies and advance environmental stewardship.