Niagara College has received Welland Hydro’s largest-ever RETROFIT PROGRAM incentive payment - more than $200,000 - for a chiller replacement at the Welland Campus that has dramatically reduced the College’s energy consumption.

The $1.3 million chiller replacement, part of Niagara College’s multi-million dollar campus redevelopment that was completed in 2011, saw the Welland Campus’s older, less-efficient chillers replaced with two highly-efficient 600 tonne chillers that cool the 500,000 square-foot main complex at the campus.

The new, Canadian-made chillers also use cutting-edge oil-less technology, with magnetic bearings that reduce friction and increase efficiency. The project also included the installation of two new 600 tonne cooling towers.

“Energy-efficiency and sustainability are key priorities at Niagara College, and were an important part of our campus redevelopment,” said Teresa Quinlin, Niagara College’s Vice President of Corporate Services. “The RETROFIT PROGRAM’s incentives made it easier for us to pursue a project of this size. Rather than adding additional chillers to cool our new buildings, we were able to install highly-efficient chillers in our existing physical plant that can cool our entire expanded main-complex.”

“The RETROFIT PROGRAM provides important incentives for organizations, and in Niagara College’s case has supported a major upgrade that will dramatically reduce its energy use,” said Jason Biesma, CDM and Key Projects Manager at Welland Hydro.

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