Scaling Industrialized Zero Emissions Retrofits in California and Beyond
Rocky Mountain Institute
Recipient
Basalt, CO
Recipient Location
$688,811
Amount Spent
Active
Project Status
Project Update
The team is finalizing the design details for the connection between the exterior wall to the Integrated Mechanical System Pod system. The team is contracting to perform pre and post retrofit field monitoring installation for a multi family building.
The Issue
Most California homes rely on gas or propane to provide space and water heating. To meet the state's electrification goals, mass producible emerging technology development is needed for retrofits.
Project Innovation
This agreement will develop mechanical prototypes to provide heating, cooling, ventilation, and grid interactive controls for a retrofit-in-place, high performance, and mass-producible product. The prefabricated prototype aims to remove many of the time-consuming and costly barriers associated with deep energy retrofits.for multi-family buildings and encourage market size and stakeholder uptake.
Project Goals
Project Benefits
The project benefits will scale the uptake of high performance, deep energy retrofits. The prefabricated prototype aims to remove many of the time-consuming and costly barriers associated with deep energy retrofits.
Affordability
The high efficiency mechanical pods prototypes are expected to reduce energy cost. The prototypes will be manufactured and tested to meet performance and design targets necessary to reduce energy use.
Key Project Members
Maggie Huang
Subrecipients
Association for Energy Affordability
Staengl Engineering
