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Cogeneration Systems
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Cogeneration Systems
What are Cogeneration Systems?
Cogeneration systems, or CHP Systems, also known as cogeneration plants, are integrated power and energy systems that provide for the simultaneous production of power and thermal energy. Stated another way, Cogeneration systems integrate an onsite, "decentralized energy" (DE) system with thermally-activated power and energy technologies for heating and cooling.
Cogeneration systems are more commonly referred to as either Cogeneration or "Trigeneration" plants when also providing chilled water and/or air-conditioning in addition to hot water and/or steam.
Cogeneration systems - may also be referred to as;
Cogeneration plus Absorption Chillers - or - ADsorption Chillers
CHP Systems are also at the center of every District Energy System.
CHP Systems, District Energy Systems, Integrated Energy Systems, or Trigeneration plants, no matter how they are referred, achieve overall, net system energy efficiencies of 80% plus, and several Trigeneration plants are nearing 90% efficiencies nearing almost 300% increased efficiency over power provided by electric utilities and their central power plants"! This means significantly lowered:
energy costs
fuel costs
Cogeneration
systems achieve these greater energy efficiencies through the conversion of exhaust or reject heat from power generation into needed energy services like cooling and heating of
buildings as well as campuses. This is called "Waste
Heat Recovery" or "Recycled
Energy." Development of "packaged" or "modularized" Cogeneration
systems for end-use applications, such as commercial and institutional buildings, is
something the founder of our company has been involved with since the mid
1980's.
In the past, Cogeneration
plants have been economically attractive only in sizes above several megawatts. The emergence of a number of small generation technologies, including fuel cells, advanced low emissions engines, and
gas turbines with outputs in the 1000
kW - 5000 kW range, should extend the benefits of Integrated
Energy Systems to a much larger user base, with a consequent increase in national energy and environmental benefits.
For example, the application of Cogeneration systems (including Absorption Chillers - or - ADsorption Chillers) in commercial buildings could reduce commercial building energy consumption by 30%.
Application of such smaller-scale packaged
Cogeneration
systems provides a major breakthrough in energy efficiency
technology, energy savings as well as reduced greenhouse
gas emissions. And, by locating the power generation at or near the end-user/consumer,
i.e. their facility, building, or campus, the difficulties in siting and building new electric transmission and electric distribution infrastructures to meet today's increasing power demand are minimized.
The most promising markets for Cogeneration
systems, Trigeneration
plants, CHP Systems, District
Energy Systems or Integrated
Energy Systems are commercial or institutional buildings, government facilities, and district energy systems that distribute thermal energy to buildings.
Other candidates for Cogeneration
systems include;
Airports
Apartments
Casinos
Colleges
Commercial (central) laundries
Condos
Dairies
Dorms
EPC - Engineering Procurement Construction
Fast Food Restaurants
Food processing
Health Clubs
Hospitals
Hotels
Industrial parks
Manufacturing Plants
Medical Clinics
Motels
Nursing homes
Refrigerated warehouses
Resorts
Retirement homes
Schools
Universities
We provide the requisite services that make cogeneration systems a reality, (some through partner companies or affiliates) including;
Cogeneration system design and layout
Construction Management
Economic Feasibility
Electrical Engineering
Environmental Permitting
Engineering Feasibility
Equipment Selection
Permitting
Power Purchase Agreement
Project Finance
Project Management
Real Time Monitoring
System Integration
System Operation
Utility company coordination and interconnect
24 / 7 / 365 service and maintenance
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What is Distributed Cogeneration?
Distributed Cogeneration, also referred to as Distributed CHP, is the siting or installation of cogeneration or trigeneration plants at the customer's location where the power and energy generated, is used.
Cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power or CHP, "captures" the heat from the engine or turbine, that would otherwise be wasted, with a "waste heat recovery" system that is a part of the cogeneration plant. The captured waste heat is then used by the customer in the form of steam, hot water - or in the case of "trigeneration" - air-conditioning or chilled water as well. This provides a significant reduction in the use of fuel such as natural gas or other fuel - that would otherwise have been used to provide the same amount of thermal energy. This also reduces the facility's "carbon footprint" by greatly reducing the overall amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
An onsite "Distributed Cogeneration" system is one of the best, if not the best, "demand side management" solutions that benefits not only the customer that installs the cogeneration plant, but also the utility company and all of its customers as well.
Trigeneration
takes cogeneration
one additional step by integrating "heat-driven" chillers (absorption
chillers or adsorption
chillers) which further increases that facility's efficiencies and providing an
even greater demand side management
solution.
Cogeneration or trigeneration provides the following benefits;
highest overall efficiency any dispatchable power generation resource
lowest net greenhouse gas emissions of any dispatchable power generation resource
reduces a customer's energy expenses
provides a net cost savings and return on investment in as little as 3 years
diversifies and reduces the electric utility's and electric grid's portfolio price risk
enhances customer and local reliability
reduces transmission and distribution system losses
facilitates the customer's environmental goals
improves the environment through reduced levels of pollutants
What is the Cogeneration
Development company?
The cogeneration development
company will
develop, own and operate new
cogeneration and
trigeneration power
plants.
What is the Cogeneration
Fund?
The Cogeneration Fund will provide cogeneration capital, finance or investments for the
Cogeneration Capital company,
and related cogeneration development company, that will
develop, own and operate new
cogeneration and
trigeneration power plants.
What is the Cogeneration
Capital company?
Cogeneration Capital is a new company being formed to provide the capital, investment, project finance or a "Cogeneration Fund" required by our related cogeneration development company, that will develop, own and operate new cogeneration and trigeneration power plants.
Cogeneration and trigeneration plants - at up to 80% to 90% efficiency - are nearly 300% more efficient than typical "central power plants" and therefore provide significant economic and ecological savings.
What is Cogeneration?
Cogeneration now produces almost 20% of our nation’s
electricity while saving customers that have onsite cogeneration plants, 40%
to 50% on their energy expenses. Cogeneration
provides even greater savings to our environment.
Cogeneration, also known as “combined heat and power” (CHP), cogen, district energy, total energy, and combined cycle, is the simultaneous production of heat (usually in the form of hot water and/or steam) and power, utilizing one primary fuel.
Cogeneration
technology is not the latest industry buzz-word being touted as the solution to our nation’s energy woes.
Cogeneration
is a proven technology that has been around for over 100 years.
Our nation’s first commercial power plant was also a cogeneration plant known as the Pearl Street Station that was designed and built by Thomas Edison in 1882 in New York City.
What are "Distributed Energy Resources"?
Distributed Energy Resources (DER) are small, modular, energy generation and energy storage systems and technologies that provide electric capacity or thermal energy (i.e. hot water, chilled water, steam) where and when a commercial or industrial client requires.
Typically, Distributed Energy Resources generate less than 10 MW (megawatts).
Distributed Energy Resources are highly flexible and adaptable, and can therefore, be sized to meet any customer's specific power and energy requirements, at the customers facility or business.
As they are flexible and adaptable for nearly any customer's specific requirements, DER systems can be installed to operate with the local electric grid, or be designed and installed "grid-free" without connecting to the electric grid in island or stand-alone mode.
Distributed Energy Resources' technologies include;
solar photovoltaics
solar thermal
fuel cells
microturbines
reciprocating engines that run generators
combustion turbines that run generators
cogeneration plants
trigeneration plants
EcoGeneration plants
Energy storage systems
Waste Heat Recovery
wind turbines
How are Distributed
Energy Resources systems
and technologies used?
Distributed
Energy Resources systems can be used in several ways including
managing/reducing energy expenses and ensuring reliable power by augmenting your current energy services.
Distributed
Energy Resources systems also enable a facility to operate independently
of the electric power grid, whether by choice or out of necessity.
Distributed
Energy Resources improve
a customer's "carbon footprint" by significantly reducing their
greenhouse gas emissions and increasing overall energy efficiency.
Utilities can use Distributed Energy Resources technologies to delay, reduce, or even eliminate the need to obtain additional power generation, transmission, and distribution equipment and infrastructure. At the same time, DER systems can provide voltage support and enhance local reliability.
Distributed
Energy Resources are
an ideal "demand
side management" solution.
How do I know if Distributed
Energy Resources systems
and technologies are the right choice for my facility?
In today's economy and increasing pressure for businesses to reduce their
greenhouse gas emissions, there are several economic and environmental factors
making Distributed
Energy Resources a
serious option and alternative. These include the high prices
of electricity from the electric grid/electric utility company as well as high
natural gas costs from the natural gas utilities. Uncertainties regarding
foreign oil, "peak oil" and the ever-increasing potential for disruptions
in electricity service and oil from foreign oil countries are causing managers
and CEO's of businesses to consider alternatives to traditional energy providers and for new ways to supplement
or augment their present energy situation and present suppliers.
This is particularly crucial where a facility’s energy-producing and electric
grid infrastructure are aging. The performance, cost, and availability of
DER technologies have all been improving steadily over the past several years.
New Distributed
Energy Resources systems
and technologies are significantly more efficient than
even ten years ago. Replacing or upgrading your present energy problems
with Distributed
Energy Resources may pay for itself sooner
than expected.
Energy security as well as price of energy has never been a greater concern to businesses and their managers/CEO's and CFO's. Distributed Energy Resources systems can provide the requisite power and energy needed for mission-critical loads, reduce hazardous or costly power outages, and diversify the local energy supply.
What
is Fuel
Cell Cogeneration?
Fuel Cell Cogeneration is one of the fastest-growing solutions for commercial and industrial clients requiring "clean power generation" or "pollution free power" solutions due to emissions abatement or restrictions on emissions. There are number of competing fuel cell technologies, but when one or more fuel cells are installed with "waste heat recovery" equipment, you then have a "fuel cell cogeneration" or "fuel cell CHP" system.
Absorption
Chillers
www.AbsorptionChillers.com
Adsorption
Chillers
www.AdsorptionChillers.com
B100
Biodiesel
www.B100Biodiesel.com
Balance
of Plant
www.BalanceOfPlant.com
Biomass
Gasification
www.BiomassGasification.com
Biomethane
www.Biomethane.com
Carbon
Emissions
www.CarbonEmissions.com
Central
Power Plant
www.CentralPowerPlant.com
Central
Power Plants
www.CentralPowerPlants.com
CHP
Feasibility
www.CHPfeasibility.com
CHP
System
www.CHPsystem.com
CHP
Systems
www.CHPsystems.com
Clean
Power Fund
www.CleanPowerFund.com
Cogeneration
www.Cogeneration.net
Cogeneration
Capital
www.CogenerationCapital.com
Cogeneration
Consultants
www.CogenerationConsultants.com
Cogeneration
Design
www.CogenerationDesign.com
Cogeneration
Development
www.CogenerationDevelopment.com
Cogeneration
Feasibility
www.CogenerationFeasibility.com
Cogeneration
Fund
www.CogenerationFund.com
Cogeneration
Magazine
www.CogenerationMagazine.com
Cogeneration
News
www.CogenerationNews.com
Cogeneration
Partners
www.CogenerationPartners.com
Cogeneration
Plant
www.CogenerationPlant.com
Cogeneration
Systems
www.CogenerationSystems.com
Cogeneration
Technologies
www.CogenerationTechnologies.com
Combined
Cycle Cogeneration
www.CombinedCycleCogeneration.com
Combined
Cycle Plant
www.CombinedCyclePlant.com
Combined
Heat and Power _ CHP
www.CombinedHeatAndPower.net
Combined
Cycle Power Plant
www.CombinedCyclePowerPlant.com
Cooling
Heating Power
www.CoolingHeatingPower.com
Cooling
Heating and Power
www.CoolingHeatingAndPower.com
Decentralized
Energy
www.DecentralizedEnergy.com
Distributed
Cogeneration
www.DistributedCogeneration.com
Distributed
CHP
www.DistributedCHP.com
District
Energy System
www.DistrictEnergySystem.com
District
Energy Systems
www.DistrictEnergySystems.com
District
Heating and Cooling
www.DistrictHeatingAndCooling.com
EcoGeneration
www.EcoGeneration.com
Electric
Compression
www.ElectricCompression.com
Emissions
Abatement
www.EmissionsAbatement.com
Emissions
Engineering
www.EmissionsEngineering.com
Energy
Investment Banking
www.EnergyInvestmentBanking.com
Engineering
Procurement Construction
www.EngineeringProcurementConstruction.com
Field
Compression
www.FieldCompression.com
Fuel
Cell Cogeneration
www.FuelCellCogeneration.com
Fuel
Cell Power Plant
www.FuelCellPowerPlant.com
Fuel
Gas
www.FuelGas.net
Fuel
Gas Booster
www.FuelGasBooster.com
Fuel
Gas Boosters
www.FuelGasBoosters.com
Fuel
Gas Compression
www.FuelGasCompression.com
Fuel
Gas Compressor
www.FuelGasCompressor.com
Fuel
Gas Compressors
www.FuelGasCompressors.com
Gas
Gathering
www.GasGathering.com
Gas
to Power
www.GasToPower.com
Green
Power Fund
www.GreenPowerFund.com
Heat
Recovery Steam Generator - HRSG
www.HeatRecoverySteamGenerator.com
Heat
Recovery Steam Generators
www.HeatRecoverySteamGenerators.com
Hydrogen
Fuel
www.HydrogenFuel.net
Hydrogen
Fuel Cell
www.HydrogenFuelCell.net
Hydrogen
Fuel Cells
www.HydrogenFuelCells.net
Integrated
Energy System - IES
www.IntegratedEnergySystem.com
Integrated
Energy Systems
www.IntegratedEnergySystems.com
Midstream
Oil and Gas
www.MidstreamOilAndGas.com
Molten
Carbonate Fuel Cell
www.MoltenCarbonateFuelCell.com
Molten
Carbonate Fuel Cells
www.MoltenCarbonateFuelCells.com
Onsite
Cogeneration
www.OnsiteCogeneration.com
Phosphoric
Acid Fuel Cell
www.PhosphoricAcidFuelCell.com
Phosphoric
Acid Fuel Cells
www.PhosphoricAcidFuelCells.com
Pipeline
Compression
www.PipelineCompression.com
Pipeline
Quality Gas
www.PipelineQualityGas.com
Recycled
Energy
www.RecycledEnergy.com
Selective
Catalytic Reduction - SCR
www.SelectiveCatalyticReduction.com
Sewage
Sludge
www.SewageSludge.com
Solar
Cogeneration
www.SolarCogeneration.com
Solar
Hydrogen Fuel Cell
www.SolarHydrogenFuelCell.com
Solar
Hydrogen Fuel Cells
www.SolarHydrogenFuelCells.com
Solar
Trigeneration
www.SolarTrigeneration.com
Stranded
Gas
www.StrandedGas.com
Synthesis
Gas
www.SynthesisGas.com
Total
Energy System
www.TotalEnergySystem.com
Trigeneration
www.Trigeneration.com
Waste
Heat Recovery
www.WasteHeatRecovery.com
Waste
to Energy
www.WasteToEnergy.net
Waste
to Fuel
www.WasteToFuel.com
Wastewater
Treatment Plants
www.WastewaterTreatmentPlants.net
Wastewater
Treatment System
www.WastewaterTreatmentSystem.com
Cogeneration Partners
www.CogenerationPartners.com
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