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On Thursday, March 27, Competitive Energy Services’ Keith Sampson, Senior Vice President, Energy Services and Zack Hallock, Senior Energy Services Advisor took a road trip together to tour Vicinity’s Cogeneration District Energy System, in Boston, MA, which has long provided reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy to the city’s premiere hospitals, universities, research facilities, and commercial buildings. District energy uses a centrally located facility or facilities to generate thermal energy (heat or hot or chilled water) for neighboring buildings that form an “energy district.” These resources are transported through underground pipes to meet the needs of communities, cities, or campuses, including colleges, hospitals, airports, and office parks. This electrification of district energy systems is playing a crucial role in helping U.S. cities achieve building decarbonization and a cleaner energy future. The tour was hosted by the Association of Facilities Engineering (AFE) Chapter 33. 

Pictured Left-to-Right: Zack Hallock, Keith Sampson

Electrify: An Optimists Playbook for Our Clean Energy Future

By Saul Griffith

Climate change is a planetary emergency. We have to do something now—but what? Saul Griffith has a plan. In Electrify, Griffith lays out a detailed blueprint—optimistic but feasible—for fighting climate change while creating millions of new jobs and a healthier environment. Griffith's plan can be summed up simply: electrify everything. He explains exactly what it would take to transform our infrastructure, update our grid, and adapt our households to make this possible. Billionaires may contemplate escaping our worn-out planet on a private rocket ship to Mars, but the rest of us, Griffith says, will stay and fight for the future...For a world trying to bounce back from a pandemic and economic crisis, there is no other project that would create as many jobs—up to 25 million, according to one economic analysis. Is this politically possible? We can change politics along with everything else. (An excerpt from saulgriffith.com/#books)