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    Upgraded Central Utility plant to handle expanded energy needs at new Scripps Mercy San Diego Hospital

    Sept. 12, 2022
    The expansion includes an upgrade of the existing chilled and condenser water system, steam and condensate return systems and the heating hot water system. All of the existing central mechanical HVAC equipment was demolished and replaced
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    Scripps Health is moving forward with expansion of the central energy plant at its Scripps Mercy Hospital in San Diego.

    The upgrade at the 20,000-square-foot energy facility, is designed to serve the existing hospital, which will eventually be demolished, and a future replacement hospital sometime later this decade (2027). The expansion includes an upgrade of the existing chilled and condenser water system, steam and condensate return systems and the heating hot water system.

    All of the existing central mechanical HVAC equipment was demolished and replaced. Mascari Warner Dinh provided architectural services on the project.

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     A permit report filed with the city of San Diego indicates that Scripps Mercy Hospital is going to demolish its current facility, generator and cooling tower buildings, behavioral health clinic and current hospital.

    The new construction includes a 15-story main hospital and another 15-story Hospital II building, additional support buildings, medical offices, parking, docking and drop-off areas. The central energy plant expansion also includes 18,500 square feet of utility yard space.

    The central energy plant was originally completed in 2011. The then $40 million project housed a 700-horsepower boiler steam plan and 4,000-kW (4 MW) power plant. 

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    (Rod Walton, senior editor for EnergyTech, is a 14-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper and trade journalist. He can be reached at [email protected]). 

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    Rod Walton, EnergyTech Managing Editor | Senior Editor

    For EnergyTech editorial inquiries, please contact Managing Editor Rod Walton at [email protected].

    Rod Walton has spent 15 years covering the energy industry as a newspaper and trade journalist. He formerly was energy writer and business editor at the Tulsa World. Later, he spent six years covering the electricity power sector for Pennwell and Clarion Events. He joined Endeavor and EnergyTech in November 2021.

    Walton earned his Bachelors degree in journalism from the University of Oklahoma. His career stops include the Moore American, Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, Wagoner Tribune and Tulsa World. 

    EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

    He was named Managing Editor for Microgrid Knowledge and EnergyTech starting July 1, 2023

    Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.

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