Ice Bear
Use energy at night to produce cooling during the day
Ice Energy’s Ice Bear is the world’s first distributed energy storage solution for low-rise commercial buildings, providing a unique, environmentally friendly alternative to conventional air conditioning systems.
The Ice Bear distributed energy storage system enables a powerful change in how and, more importantly, when energy is consumed for air conditioning, all without sacrificing consumer comfort.
The Ice Bear unit creates and stores cooling energy at night by freezing water in an insulated storage tank. It cools during the day by circulating chilled refrigerant from that tank to the conventional air conditioning system, eliminating the need to run the energy-intensive compressor during peak daytime hours. During off-peak hours, the conventional HVAC system operates as usual.
This unique hybrid system provides significant benefits to the end-consumer and a great opportunity for utilities looking to reduce peak electricity demand.
In 2009, Mountain Equipment Co-Op and TD Canada Trust were recognized for completing Canada’s first installations of Ice Energy.
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