Griffin Plush is a member of the Heat Loop Seward Project Ad Hoc Committee. He attended the ATMO Conference at the invitation of Your Clean Energy/Andy Baker. This is the brief report back to our committee after the trip. Find out more about ATMO here.
Hi all, I just wanted to share a little summary of my visit to speak briefly at the ATMO Summit in Washington DC. Thanks again to Mary and Bruce for their support in making it possible for me to attend. The crowd in attendance was from a pretty wide range of places, with many European attendees. One attendee who I spoke with after my presentation was a man working to develop a district heat pump project in a small community in Poland where they have faced some difficulty building political support; he asked if folks from Seward would be willing to speak with the community in Poland about our project (probably a few years in the future). Andy and I also had good conversations with a couple of manufacturers who may be positioned to help supply our project. I think that in general, we have a lot of solidarity, support, and interest from this broader industry/community and it's important to note that examples of similar projects that have already happened can be found in Europe as they are a bit ahead of the curve on these technologies. I learned a lot about the work being done to move away from synthetic refrigerants (and their plethora of risks) to natural refrigerants and feel much more equipped to talk about this move as a matter of policy and as a forward-looking aspect of our project. I had great chats with Rep. Peltola, Sen. Murkowski, and their staff. It was a good reminder for them, I think, of where our project is sitting now and of the potential our project has as a pilot for other communities in Alaska. Let me know if you all have any specific questions! I would be happy to talk on the phone to share details about anything mentioned above. Here are some photos from the trip: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ifGZQBJCubEGUQBX8
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The Coalition group for our Seward Heat Loop project has started bi-weekly meetings with DOE. During this time, budgets and design needs for Phase 1 are being looked at and refined. This time is well spent to set milestones to be completed in Phase 1, which can be a year process, to bring design from 90% to deployment ready. Community Voice (the Ad Hoc Committee and other volunteers) will be setting up presentations and doing outreach, while the other coalition members will be working on analysis of data, design and more.
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