Minnesota Power is a regional utility company serving 145,000 customers in Northeastern Minnesota. Staff pride themselves on promoting energy-efficient technologies and saving customers money. Like many of its customers, Minnesota Power faces efficiency challenges within existing and aging facilities. This led leadership to pursue a high-performance HVAC retrofit in one of its offices.
After seven years of failing compressors, humidity issues, and frigid winters, a defective HVAC system in its Cloquet, Minnesota, office had left the utility company at its wit’s end. After assessing the needs of the building and its occupants, the sales team from Mitsubishi Electric Trane HVAC US (METUS) specified and designed a City Multi® variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system, finally solving the building’s issues.