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Austin's New Green Energy Power Plant is Cool!

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Real Estate Agent with Turner Residential

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Our own Austin Energy will snip the ribbon to their newest, most greenest power plant on Tuesday. Christened the Mueller Energy Center, part of the gigantic Mueller redevelopment project, the design and function of the building sports some pretty radical new fuel-saving developments. Utilizing the best technology available, the capabilities of this project point down exciting new avenues in energy conservation. Then again, this is what people have come to expect from Austin. This is how we roll. Greenstyle.

Apart from the fact that the onsite plant will provide 100% of all the energy requirements of the new Dell Children's Medical Center, it will also serve as an auxiliary power station for other Mueller facilities if the grid goes down. Exhaust fumes from the natural gas-fueled station will be used to both heat the hospital and chill water for air conditioning. A breakdown: the plant will produce 4.3 megawatts of the good stuff, but produce 40 percent less in carbon emissions, and use 20 percent less fuel than equivalent operations.

See, energy conservation can be cool!

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