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Bush Cites Plant as Model for Heating

ST. PAUL, MN-The 18-year-old plant heats and cools 146 buildings in Downtown and is planning to add a $52-million plant that would burn waste wood. The president says the plant is a model in efficiency and affordability.

By Jim McCartney | Updated on May 21, 2001

ST. PAUL, MN-When President George W. Bush unveiled his energy plan last week, he chose an unlikely spot to do so — here. But the spot was chosen, in large part, because ofdowntown St. Paul’s district energy plant.

After the energy crisis of the ’70s, the plant was built in an old coal-fired electricity generation plant in 1983 with $42 million, mostly in revenue bonds. The non-profit utility — which now burns oil, natural gas, coal and wood — was thought a better, cheaper, moreenvironmentally friendly way to heat and cool Downtown buildings.

“The plant is a model of energy efficiency,” Bush said after touring the plant. “It is also a model of energy diversity. It uses conventional fuels like oil and natural gas and coal,and renewable fuels like wood chips. And the plant is a model of affordability. While other energy prices rise, District Energy has not raised its heating andcooling rates in four years.”

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