{"id":715763,"date":"2010-04-13T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T16:29:41","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T16:15:31","slug":"off-peak-chilling-at-thermal-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/715763","title":{"rendered":"Off peak chilling at thermal facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Scheduling techniques can be applied to leverage off-peak utility rates and use thermal facility to store chilled water.  This results in a win for the utility, Progress Energy, and the customer, UCF.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;   &#8220;The Thermal Energy Storage Facility &#8212; the only one of its kind at a Florida university &#8212; allows UCF to chill water at night, taking advantage of Progress Energy\u2019s off-peak energy rates, which are approximately 50 percent lower than daytime rates. &#8221;   &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via Univ of Central Florida: <a href=\"http:\/\/today.ucf.edu\/blog\/2010\/04\/13\/ucf-earns-637000-energy-rebate\/\">Energy Rebate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"http:\/\/progress-energy.com\/custservice\/carres\/questions\/billingfaq.asp#b2\">Progress Energy Off-Peak Schedule<\/a>: &#8220;You reduce your bill by shifting your electric use to off-peak periods and staggering the use of major appliances (such as your electric water heater, dishwasher and dryer) during on-peak hours. You are charged a lower rate for electricity used during off-peak periods. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scheduling techniques can be applied to leverage off-peak utility rates and use thermal facility to store chilled water. This results in a win for the utility, Progress Energy, and the customer, UCF. &#8230; &#8230; &#8220;The Thermal Energy Storage Facility &#8212; the only one of its kind at a Florida university &#8212; allows UCF to chill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-715763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-30cz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817088,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715763\/revisions\/817088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}