Ice that Impresses, with Easy-to-Quantify Savings
We recently visited Scott Fusco and John O’Neill at?The Edge Sports Center?in Bedford, MA. You may have heard of?Scott Fusco: he played on two US-Olympic hockey teams, is a Hobey Baker Award Winner, Harvard grad and a successful businessman. John O’Neill is a seasoned facility manager, having joined the team at The Edge last year.
Going Cold Turkey
John came to?The Edge without any prior REALice experience, having always flooded with hot water. He says he was?was nervous when he found out they were using treated?cold water to maintain the ice. He even said that before he started working at the Edge and used REALice he says that if his owner had come to him and said they’d be going to cold floodwater technology, he would have said “NO”. His past experience had shown him that using cold water to maintain the ice produces sub-standard ice.
But not with REALice.
At The Edge, John was forced to go "cold turkey". Using cold, REALice-treated floodwater, he’s now impressed with the quality of the ice and, especially, how easily it sets up. One of their rinks always had a hard time setting up, especially in the summer months. Now, using REALice-treated cold water, the water freezes quickly and sets up as it should. He's even found that by using cold water to maintain the ice, they avoid grey ice due to paint migration compared to what he used to get with hot water floods.
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Scott talks about the business side, saying REALice is one of the easiest energy-saving initiatives to quantify. He’s seen it with a big-time reduction in his run time hours – 20-25% less than what they had when they still did the ice with water heated to 140°F.
Incentives
The Edge Sports Center benefitted from incentives from utilities?NationalGrid?and?Eversource?for their REALice installations. Rebates like these are available from many public utilities and we’ll do the legwork to research and even make the applications for you. Those incentives?will bring your arena’s simple payback time down significantly. And the REALice will set you up with long-term avoided energy spends — and great ice — for years to come.
Greener Arena Solutions
1 年Thanks for reposting Rachel Kolenko! As a figure skater, I'm sure you can tell good ice when you see it. Here's another picture I took of their ice on LiveBarn. The lines and logos really pop. The ice is nearly a year and a half old, and it looks like it went in yesterday. That'll be the REALice.