ABSTRACT
In the early 1970's, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) undertook a program to develop utility delivery mechanisims for housing. One specific thrust of this program is the integration of power generation and environmental conditioning - Total Energy - in the multifamily sector. The National Bureau of Standards performed a feasibility survey of HUD Operation Breakthrough sites to determine which sites would be suitable for implementation of a highly instrumented total energy system. The Summit Plaza Development at Jersey City, New Jersey, was selected. The site consists of 486 residential units, plus other space. The plant provides electricity, hot water for space heating and domestic hot water, and cold water for air conditioning. The site occupancy started in 1974, and the total energy plant was operating then. In addition, the site includes a Pneumatic Trash Collection (PTC) System which collects all solid waste from the site. The site was heavily instrumented and data collected and reported for a one-year period from November 1975 to October 1976. Both technical and economic data are collected. This data and the plant analysis will be reported.
