December 23, 2005—Carrier Commercial Services has announced that new variable speed drive (VSD) technology for small heating and cooling air-handling units was placed in a US Capitol building in Washington, DC.
Carrier’s Comfort-Plus Drive Fan Coil VSD delivers a wide variety of energy-saving features unmatched in the industry, according to the company, a unit of United Technologies Corp.
Installed in the Longworth House of Representatives Office building, the unit’s air stream will provide more comfort and energy efficiency. The upgraded energy-saving unit provides precise heating or cooling to the occupied space based on comfort needs. For this one unit alone, Carrier estimates the operating costs will be reduced by at least 45 percent or more than $1,000 over ten years of use. Carrier maintains that significant savings could be realized if this technology is broadly implemented across federal office buildings.
Carrier comments that while institutions are generally aggressive in pursuing central plant energy efficiency, individual room air-handling units in buildings have been frequently overlooked as a potential source of savings due to the lack of a technology that could retrofit an old unit rather than have to replace it entirely. The new technology all but eliminates the distracting noise found in most fixed-speed units, critical in meeting rooms of Congress and elsewhere.
Carrier Corporation is a registered Department of Energy Qualified Energy Service Company.
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