Telangana Plans District Cooling System for Bharat Future City
- brg_news_room
- Mar 12
- 1 min read
India: The government of Telangana plans to introduce a district cooling system in the upcoming Bharat Future City project, allowing buildings to be cooled through a centralised chilled water network instead of individual air-conditioning units. The system will produce chilled water at a central cooling plant and distribute it through underground pipelines to residential and commercial buildings. The water, cooled to around 5 degrees Celsius, will transfer cooling through internal heat exchangers inside buildings before returning to the plant for re-cooling. This approach will remove the need for external air-conditioning units while maintaining indoor climate control.
The district cooling system will be implemented across key zones of the project, including a 300-acre AI City, a 200-acre Health City, a 500-acre Education Hub and a 3,000-acre Life Sciences Hub. Officials stated that the system is designed to reduce electricity consumption and greenhouse gas emissions while improving building space utilisation and reducing maintenance requirements. District cooling systems are used in several international developments and are currently implemented at scale in India in Gujarat’s GIFT City, with additional projects under consideration in Telangana.
Source: Deccan Chronicle
