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October 28, 2010 Mayor Michael A. Nutter announced this morning the award of a grant in the amount of $150,000 to fund NovaThermal Energy’s pilot demonstration project, as part of the competitive Greenworks Pilot Energy Technology Program. This project will enable the design, installation, field testing, data collection and analysis of the smallest unit of NovaThermal’s anti-block filtration and heat pump system. Installation of a demonstration system in the US will provide evidence of the technical feasibility of the filtration system while documenting significant energy efficiency savings.

The project site is a 20,000 sq ft Philadelphia Water Department facility where NovaThermal Energy will demonstrate the system’s ability to save approximately 40% of the building’s current heating costs. The project will be fully commissioned in the first quarter of 2011, after which tours of the facility will be available on request.

Demonstration of the waste heat geothermal technology is critical since a typical commercial-scale NovaThermal project has an impact the equivalent of: preventing 150 rainforest acres from deforestation, removing 3,000 cars from operation or the energy in 1,500 homes.