The Ronald Reagan Library is rich with documents and photographs depicting America’s national heritage. It contains over 55 million government documents, over 1.5 million photographs and more than 100,000 artifacts from the life of Ronald Reagan. The library continues to expand and a new facility, the Air Force One Pavilion, is its most recent addition. In an effort to lower overall energy costs and ensure minimal environmental impact, the cooling, heating, power and hot water for the new facility is provided entirely by a combination of three PureComfort® Model 240M combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) solutions and four PureThermal® Model 60M combined heat and power (CHP) solutions. 

By embracing the latest technology from UTC Power, the facility has proven itself to be an environmental and technological leader.


 Energy Productivity

The PureComfort® solution is a combination of microturbines and a double-effect absorption chiller/heater from Carrier Corporation, UTC Power’s sister company. It is the industry’s first integrated microturbine and double-effect absorption chiller solution. The microturbine exhaust is collected in a manifold and used to drive the absorption chiller, enabling the PureComfort® solution toachieve an overall fuel utilization rate of more than 80 percent, far greater than the 33 percent typical of a central powerplant.


 Energy Responsibility

	The Ronald Reagan Library is proving that sustainability makes economic sense. While reducing its carbon footprint, it’s also conserving natural resources. The UTC Power PureComfort® systems will reduce this library's carbon footprint by 1,400 tons each year. To achieve the same positive environmental impact, 300 acres* of forest would need to be planted.
	The power generated by a megawatt of PureComfort® systems saves over 4 million gallons** of water each year that would otherwise be wasted by conventional electrical generation. That’s enough water to fill more than 6 Olympic-size swimming pools. Water conservation is especially important as humanity battles to conserve precious water resources.
	Reduction of harmful emissions like nitrogen oxides (NOx), is yet another environmental benefit of  PureComfort®  system  technology. NOx emissions will be reduced at the Ronald Reagan Library by 10 tons each year, which equates to the same environmental benefit as removing 500 cars*** from the road.