The three sites at a glancesame form factor, three host types
Same 50 kW cabinet at each site. Three host categories with different thermal load profiles, different counterparty shapes, and different regulatory pathways. All three offer the characteristics that the small form factor is designed for.
Industrial laundry serving Boston hospital systems including Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Lahey, Boston Children's, and Dana-Farber. Linen processing runs at high temperature continuously. Hot water is the entire operation, with healthcare linen requiring 71 °C [160 °F] minimum wash temperature per CDC and Massachusetts DPH guidance.
Healthcare linen processing has the most stringent hot water temperature requirements of any commercial process in the city. Sanitation cycles, rinse cycles, and the wash floor itself all consume heat continuously.
Our 65 °C [149 °F] warm water output enters the hot water makeup loop as boiler preheat, displacing the gas fired load that the boiler currently carries from cold makeup up to 65 °C. The boiler is responsible only for the final lift to 71 °C and above. The economics are straightforward: the highest gas displacement per kW of heat delivered of any of the three sites, and the host facility carries BERDO exposure under the Healthcare use type cap.
- Process water integration with the boiler preheat loop
- Eversource or National Grid interconnection for incremental compute load
- Hospital system alignment with the systems whose linen the laundry processes
- BERDO compliance value transfer on Scope 1 gas displacement
- Pad and access within the laundry facility footprint
Land based recirculating aquaculture system growing finfish, shellfish, or seaweed at scale in Massachusetts. Water temperature control across the entire production volume is the operational core of the facility. Heating costs scale directly with biomass and growing cycle, and species selection is constrained by what the heating budget can support.
A 50 kW unit on a recirculating aquaculture system enters the warm side of the recirculation loop through a tempering heat exchanger. Our 65 °C output is too warm for direct injection — fish and shellfish growing temperatures sit between 12 and 28 °C. The exchanger drops our output into the loop's working temperature.
The architecture lets the operator extend growing seasons, run higher value warm water species at northern latitudes, and decouple production planning from heating fuel cost. Aquaculture in Massachusetts has state investment from MassCEC, the Division of Marine Fisheries, and the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance. Tufts Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and WHOI Sea Grant are credible research partners.
- Tempering heat exchanger sizing for species and recirculation volume
- Year round heat profile alongside species growing temperature
- Sector engagement through MassCEC, DMF, and Sea Grant
- Pad and access within a working aquaculture facility
- Research publication path with Tufts Cummings or WHOI
A mid-rise affordable housing development with a central hot water plant and hydronic heat distribution, planning the BERDO 2030 compliance retrofit. The development serves 50 to 200 units. Existing gas boilers face the BERDO emissions cap tightening every five years from 2025, with the 2030 step likely binding for portfolios above 20,000 sq ft [1,860 m²].
Affordable housing is the BERDO compliance case where the operator has the strongest social mandate to decarbonise and the weakest capital pathway to do it. Heat pump retrofits in pre-war and mid century affordable housing are expensive and operationally complex.
A 50 kW MicroLink unit sized to a single building enters the hot water plant as the primary heat source, displacing gas boilers for 60 to 80 percent of the year round load with the boiler held as winter peaking and backup. The architecture pairs a verified low carbon heat source with stable residential energy bills and BERDO compliance value held on the operator's books. The political coalition is strong: the Wu administration, the BERDO Review Board, the Boston Environment Department, and the affordable housing operators all want this category to work.
- Hot water plant integration with hydronic distribution and boiler peaking
- Eversource interconnection for incremental compute load in residential zoning
- BERDO compliance value transfer on Scope 1 gas displacement
- Resident communication and acoustic posture for a 50 kW unit in residential zoning
- Building selection across BHA, MassHousing, Beacon, POAH, Madison Park, TCB portfolios