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CUP: Central Utility Plant

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The downtown concept has many missing details and costs. One issue are the energy requirements; electrical and gas, plus backup power. Hospitals require a CUP, or Central Utility Plant, here's an CUP Schematic. Incoming power (electric and gas), stored gas (diesel fuel), and power production occur here, and are then distributed to the hospital facility.

Currently the 64-acre St. Luke's Campus has its own micro-grid that supply green energy to; the hospital, Utica College, and the St. Luke's Nursing facility. It is called the Burrstone Energy Center. Why are politicians suggesting we walk away from the entire Oneida County Medical District, and start anew?

The demands of the downtown hospital will require new electrical power lines and gas lines from National Grid. The existing Columbia Lafayette Neighborhood is served by what's in place. However much larger systems, and a backup system, are demanded by a huge hospital. Systems like these Combined Heat & Power (CHP) or "Cogeneration plants"

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The @MVHealthSystem downtown @CityofUtica concept has many missing pieces & costs. Why build a new, complex & expensive power system, a "CUP" when St. Luke's has one? We ask, because taxpayers are asking us! So we continue our investigation https://t.co/sAhs0vc9Y1 pic.twitter.com/erkxw2UuSK

— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) July 9, 2018

A #NoHospitalDowntown member ask's today...

"Question – Where would National Grid place the electrical plant comparable to the one at St. Luke’s that feeds gas and electric to the hospital? Where’s its location and has a study been done by the EPA to check for a gas, electric and sewer problems on that block and in West Utica to house the hospital as well. National Grid said that the cost will be prohibitive and how has the hospital group figured the cost into the building program? This is a critical component of the plan along with the location of the helicopter port. How is that figured into the plan and are the costs escalating? National Grid should be called upon to give estimates and a request for where the location of where the plant would be."

Follow the conversation, the investigation here: #NoHospitalDowntown Talks: "Hospital CUP"

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Politicians hijack healthcare future, backs to facts https://t.co/LHy5rYlhCU When did media cover this? #abdication So many missing pieces! pic.twitter.com/IKtPnXT5c8

— #NoHospitalDowntown (@NoHospitalDwtn) May 19, 2017

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No Studies, No Reports, thus we remain #NoHospitalDowntown