District Energy

APS Energy Services markets, designs, constructs, finances and operates district energy systems throughout the Southwest. District energy, is an innovative centralized cooling and heating system that utilizes an extensive underground network of pipes to efficiently deliver hot and cold water, steam, or electricity from a central plant. This central plant is capable of servicing an entire campus or individual buildings, parceled areas, downtown locations and individual locations where there are concentrated energy requirements.

Whether you are constructing a new building, renovating an existing structure or replacing air conditioning equipment, with district energy you only purchase the energy, not the equipment that produces it. Eliminating your equipment avoids capital expenditures and saves you the time and expense you would otherwise incur maintaining and operating your own equipment.

Benefits

  • Eliminates up-front capital expenditures
  • Creates attractive life cycle economics
  • Facilitates budget predictability
  • Reduces risk exposure
  • Reduces structural design requirements in new buildings
  • Eliminates and/or reduces electrical distribution for cooling
  • Increases space availability in building
  • Increases flexibility to add future cooling capacity
  • Eliminates costly maintenance and capital replacement expenses
  • Reduces average cost for kWh
  • Allows client to focus on core business
  • Provides 24/7 expert service
  • Strengthened energy infrastructure
  • Reduced emissions and pollution