New Steam Plant

[nodak651]

May have a new steam plant as soon as late fall or winter of 2019.

http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2018/03/full-steam-ahead-almost/

[SWSiouxMN]

2 minutes ago, nodak651 said:

May have a new steam plant as soon as late fall or winter of 2019.

http://blogs.und.edu/und-today/2018/03/full-steam-ahead-almost/

About damn time

[Teeder11]

In a better location, too!

[SWSiouxMN]

That would also take a TON off of deferred maintenance correct?

Wait, new buildings?  I thought UND was being bulldozed one building at a time. 

[UNDBIZ]

29 minutes ago, SWSiouxMN said:

That would also take a TON off of deferred maintenance correct?

Wait, new buildings?  I thought UND was being bulldozed one building at a time. 

It's crazy. I mean between a new steam plant, new med school, new aerospace building, collaborative energy complex, core library expansion, and indoor practice facility, it's almost like the chicken littles here are wrong about UND being shut down. Next up: new business school. 

[SiouxVolley]

Would think it would use nat gas, which is so much cleaner and a ND product now too.

Is that the reason the stacks aren’t so tall?

[UNDBIZ]

2 hours ago, SiouxVolley said:

Would think it would use nat gas, which is so much cleaner and a ND product now too.

Is that the reason the stacks aren’t so tall?

At one point they were looking at capturing and selling activated carbon from the burned coal. Not sure if that's still in the cards or not. 

[The Sicatoka]

On 3/15/2018 at 4:09 PM, SiouxVolley said:

Would think it would use nat gas, which is so much cleaner and a ND product now too.

Is that the reason the stacks aren’t so tall?

It might be that UND and Johnson Controls and Mac McLennan have been talking. Mac's organization has excess capacity that may be useful in this venture. You don't need tall stacks when your local fired systems are the backups to electric powered primaries.