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Investigating The Potential Of Residential District Energy, Nelson Fumo, Vicente Bortone, Juan Zambrano, Aleyani Zambrano

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The International District Energy Association claims that district energy: improve energy efficiency, enhanced environmental protection, fuel flexibility, ease of operation and maintenance, reliability, comfort and convenience for customers, decreased life-cycle costs, decreased building capital costs, and improved architectural design flexibility. In the U.S.A. most of the installed district energy systems are found in buildings such as colleges and universities, healthcare installations, government installations, airports and community utilities, as well as industry. All these applications have proved the advantages of district energy. However, for typical neighborhoods in small cities in the U.S.A., the dispersion of the dwelling imposes additional challenges to …