SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH — Utah Clean Energy recently marked the grand opening of the Climate Innovation Center, a high-performance facility, located in downtown Salt Lake City, which will serve as a model for zero-energy buildings.
The Climate Innovation Center breathes new life into a once dilapidated 50-year-old building and highlights the opportunity to modernize our homes and buildings to cut emissions and combat climate change. The building offers a space dedicated to learning, exploration and collaboration centered on climate solutions and improving local air quality and a place for the community to engage and create solutions to the challenges faced.
The building meets some of the most rigorous high-performance standards in the nation and is built to achieve zero-energy standards. Its onsite solar power, coupled with battery storage, will provide all of the building’s energy needs and the building operates without natural gas, indicates a release.
The Climate Innovation Center is a recipient of a Rocky Mountain Power Blue Sky Grant, which supported the rooftop solar installation complete with a solar canopy and battery storage.
The center will serve as headquarters for Utah Clean Energy as well as a community and education space.
Throughout the renovation, Utah Clean Energy and its building partners have documented all of the steps to achieve zero energy and will utilize the building and a dedicated website as a teaching tool to make it easy for others to follow suit, adds the release.
“This is a living laboratory and teaching tool for the public and the business community demonstrating the tremendous role that buildings have in solving climate change,” said Sarah Wright, executive director of Utah Clean Energy, in a statement.
“As we confront the urgent challenges posed by climate change, the need for bold, innovative solutions has never been greater. With the Climate Innovation Center, we demonstrate that solutions are already at hand; we have what we need to lay the groundwork for a healthy, sustainable, and resilient future for generations to come.”
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