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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 worked with Ever-Green Energy to develop a district energy implementation plan to transition the existing steam system to a hot water system in downtown Lansing, expanding on the district energy master plan that Ever-Green completed for BWL in 2020.
The implementation planning process began with updating the understanding of the existing systems and understanding any changes in the condition of the steam and chilled water systems, the related infrastructure, workforce, operations philosophy, and energy rates.
Using this information, Ever-Green developed a strategy for the transition of the steam system to a hot water system in coordination with the City’s upcoming infrastructure project and BWL’s customers’ needs.
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:
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.
In 2024, Ever-Green did a review of our earlier master plan and began supporting BWL in implementing recommendations for customer outreach and engagement and design, planning, and permitting.