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By Dan Rafter Ed Bussiere, facilities director with Windham Hospital in Willimantic, CT, knows that his hospital has received plenty of benefits from the cogeneration plant that has been providing power to the facility since December 2008. The plant, powered by microturbines provided by UTC Power, provides enough energy to heat and cool the hospital, something that has significantly reduced the facility’s reliance on the public power grid. The cogeneration plant also helps the hospital meet its “green” ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Supply, Power Systems, Turbine
SEOUL & LONDON, 11 March 2013: Two years since the Fukushima nuclear accident, the future of nuclear energy continues to dominate the global agenda. Uncertainties around its future and the challenging policy choices will be debated by senior figures from industry and government at the 2013 World Energy Congress in October, organisers announced today. Dr Christoph Frei, Secretary General of the World Energy Council, commented: “We will be tackling some of the most pressing issues at our World Energy C...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Supply, Power Systems, Powerplants
By Penelope B. Grenoble One fallout from the devastation Hurricane Sandy, caused on the eastern seaboard in Fall 2012, was the realization of a need for better systems to keep power up-and-running during natural disasters. “There’s been a new focus on microgrids,” says Rich Shaw, General Manager of Domestic Sales at UTC Power in South Windsor, CT. “And in Connecticut, there’s been a move to make fuel cells a major contributor because they can provide clean power close to where it’s needed, and th...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Efficiency, Fuel Cells, Power Supply
By Dan Rafter When officials with Houweling’s Tomatoes installed two 4.36-MW Jenbacher J624 natural-gas engines in their Camarillo, CA-based greenhouse, they made history. With installation of those engines, Houweling’s Tomatoes became the first greenhouse grower in the United States to unveil a combined heat and power (CHP) greenhouse that captures carbon dioxide and uses it to fertilize plants. But the installation wasn’t just about making history. Officials with Houweling’...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: CHP, Power Supply, Power Systems
By Carol Brzozowski EPA’s recent list of top 50 organizations in the Green Power Partnership have purchased more than 12 billion kWh of green power annually, equivalent to avoiding the carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from the electricity use of more than one million average American homes. They’re using renewable power sources such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, and low-impact hydropower. In Johnson Control’s fifth annual energy efficiency survey, conducted among 4,000 building owners and op...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Efficiency, Power Supply, Renewable
By Don Talend
In a Boston, MA, metropolitan area that is experiencing both considerable growth and an evolving regulatory energy environment, electric capacity will need to increase one way or another in the coming years. The Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD) is choosing to increase capacity in a forward-thinking way by taking advantage of the benefits that turbines can provide in terms of boosting grid output. Flexibility and expandability are major potential benefits of installing turbines in power-product...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Supply, Power Systems, Turbine
By Elizabeth Cutright
When you’re focused on each step, it’s easy to get sidetracked and find yourself miles away from your final destination. So, what if we look at energy efficiency and reliability as a journey from a past littered with waste and misuse towards a future full of clean, renewable energy served up to a conscientious and informed public? How far off the path have we wandered in search of low-lying fruit and early adopters? And have we failed to notice that, sometimes, energy efficiency can be more of a burden ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand, Energy Efficiency, Power Supply
By Jeff Beiter
Masonic Village in Elizabethtown, PA, is a sprawling continuing-care retirement community, children’s home, and community service organization that opened in 1910. Today, the 1,400-acre complex serves more than 1,700 residents. For decades, the complex was driven by a coal-fired plant that burned more than 5,000 tons of coal each year. The antiquated energy system featured steam-driven generators that produced electricity for the entire campus. Even after the campus decommissioned the generators in the ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Emissions, Microturbines, Power Supply
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