News and Articles on Industrial Applications of Cogeneration

Tomato Growers Test GE Cogeneration Software

June 15, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

GE’s Distributed Power business says that Prominent Growers Association, a commercial tomato greenhouse growers collective in the Netherlands, will serve as a pilot customer to showcase how GE’s myPlant 2.0 can increase the efficiency of on-site cogeneration plants. The new myPlant 2.0 software is powered by Predix, GE’s Industrial Internet ... Read more »

$2M Pays for Cogeneration at College

June 9, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

A $2 million grant through Pennsylvania’s Alternative and Clean Energy (ACE) program will help Duquesne University upgrade its Energy Center, which generates the bulk of electricity for campus with a natural gas turbine generator. The ACE-funded project is anticipated to save 18,256 million cubic feet of natural gas annually and ... Read more »

NC College Uses Combined Heat and Power

June 9, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

NC State is using a combined heat and power system to generate electricity on a large scale. The system allows the University to demand less energy from the local power company and significantly reduce its electrical consumption and utility costs.

Hotel Installs 10 kW Micro-Cogeneration System

June 4, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

EnerSave was awarded a contract to supply and install two Yanmar 10 kW micro-cogeneration units at the Wilshire Grand Hotel in West Orange, New Jersey. Cogeneration is the use of one fuel to generate two forms of energy, in this case electricity and hot water. The Yanmar natural gas engine ... Read more »

Hospital Completes $3.4M in Energy Efficiency Upgrades

June 4, 2015August 2, 2019 by Linda Hardesty

Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSE&G) and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Rahway in New Jersey marked the completion of $3.4 million in energy efficiency improvements that will save the acute care hospital more than $300,000 annually in energy costs. The work was completed through the PSE&G Hospital Efficiency ... Read more »

Army to Build $40 Million Cogeneration Plant

June 3, 2015 by Josh Kessler

The US Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) plans to build a $40 million combined heat and power (CHP) plant that will meet 80 percent of APG’s energy needs, writes the Baltimore Sun. The CHP, or cogeneration, system will provide both steam and electricity to the facility, generating $4.4 million in ... Read more »

Army to Save $113M Over 19 Years with CHP Plant

May 28, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Johnson Controls broke ground on a new combined heat and power plant at the US Army’s Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG) in Maryland. The CHP plant is designed to save the Army nearly $113 million over 19 years. The new natural gas cogeneration plant designed by Johnson Controls will supply a ... Read more »

Professional Laundering Facility Installs Cogeneration

May 27, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

A Tecogen combined heat and power (CHP) system will generate over 90 percent of the power required for the Bates Troy professional laundering facility in Binghamton, New York. The CHP system provides electricity, heat, domestic and operational hot water for the washing facility. The system also provides emergency back-up power ... Read more »

PowerWise Offers Web Controls for Mini-Split Heat Pumps

May 27, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

PowerWise has created smartphone and web controls for mini-split heat pump combined cooling and heating devices. Mini-split users can now control temperature settings online, as part of an energy management dashboard. Users can set up to eight heating and cooling periods. Commercial customers can also apply thermostat templates to multiple ... Read more »

FlexEnergy Commissions Multiple 250 KW Gas Turbines in Seoul

May 26, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

FlexEnergy recently commissioned multiple 250 KW gas turbine generators using its hot water cogeneration module for a combined heat and power (CHP) application in a newly constructed, high-end residential complex in Seoul, South Korea. The turbines successfully passed Korea Electrical Safety Corporation qualification standards testing prior to commissioning, and the ... Read more »

Smaller CHP Units Gain Popularity in Denmark

May 26, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

Denmark is known for using large combined heat and power (CHP) installations for its grid, but now the market is really expanding in the country for using smaller CHP systems for multifamily buildings, schools, offices and municipal buildings, according to an article in Cogeneration & On-site Power Production. Because of the ... Read more »

Tri-Generation System Generates Heat, Power, Hydrogen

May 21, 2015 by Linda Hardesty

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office and FuelCell Energy of Danbury, Connecticut, completed their combined heat and power (CHP) partnership project at FuelCell Energy’s Torrington, Connecticut, manufacturing plant. In addition to the generation of heat and power exceeding 75 percent efficiency, this unique CHP system also provides a stream of ... Read more »

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