The Anthes Building (FL-A) at 3375 Mitchell Lane in northeast Boulder was purchased by UCAR in 2009 and remodeled in 2011. It is named for Richard Anthes, UCAR president from 1988 to the present and NCAR director from 1986 to 1988. It features energy-efficient, green components, resulting in long-term cost savings. Among these components is a geothermal heating and cooling exchange system and solar panels on the roof. Geothermal systems draw on the relatively constant temperature of the ground below a building (roughly 50 degrees F in the Boulder area) in order to generate heating in winter and cooling in summer, producing as much as six times more power than they consume. The 100-kilowatt array of solar panels on the roof is capable of producing about 37% of the building's electricity needs and 24% of the building's total energy needs. The building is the future home of NCAR's Research Applications Laboratory (RAL).
