Hyatt Place

District Energy Provides Key Benefits to Numerous High-Profile Nashville Properties

    The Music City Center and Hyatt Place Nashville Downtown have helped change the Nashville landscape. Perhaps not as evident—at least from the outside—is the fact that both properties are customers of the Metro Nashville District Energy System (DES). For facilities such as these, district energy offers a more space-efficient alternative to stand-alone heating…

DES Tunnel Repair

DES Tunnels and Trenches Kept Up to Date

Beneath the busy streets of downtown Nashville, there’s “traffic” of a completely different sort. The Metro Nashville District Energy System (DES) includes roughly four miles of trenches and tunnels with 84,000 feet of piping, distributing energy to numerous customers. Of this total, some 5,800 trench feet are within the system’s main tunnels below Broadway (2,100…