Announcements
A new report Combined Heat and Power: A Clean Energy Solution
provides a foundation for national discussions on effective ways to achieve 40 GW of new, cost-effective CHP by 2020, and includes an overview of the key issues currently impacting CHP deployment and the factors that need to be considered by stakeholders involved in the dialogue. White House Executive Order
Combined heat and power (CHP) is a key component of distributed energy within the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). CHP—sometimes referred to as cogeneration—provides a cost-effective, near-term opportunity to improve our nation's energy, environmental, and economic future.
Accelerated CHP has proven its effectiveness and holds promise for the future—as an:
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Environmental Solution – Significantly reducing CO2 emissions through greater energy efficiency
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Competitive Business Solution – Increasing efficiency, reducing business costs, and creating green-collar jobs
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Local Energy Solution – Deployable throughout the United States
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Infrastructure Modernization Solution – Relieving grid congestion and improving energy security.
CHP Project Profiles Database
CHP project profiles compiled by DOE's Regional Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs) can be accessed via a user-friendly database. Project profiles can be searched by state, CEAC, market sector, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, system size, technology/prime mover, fuel, thermal energy use, and year installed. Access the CHP Project Profiles database.
Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs)
DOE's Regional Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs) promote and assist in transforming the market for CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy technologies and concepts throughout the United States.
State & Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action)
DOE has partnered with EPA on the State & Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action). SEE Action is a state and local effort facilitated by the federal government that helps states, utilities, and other local stakeholders take energy efficiency to scale and achieve all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2020. The Industrial Energy Efficiency/Combined Heat & Power Working Group is developing a number of resources.
Boiler MACT Technical Assistance
EPA is expected to finalize the reconsideration process for its Clean Air Act pollution standards that apply to large and small boilers in a wide range of facilities and institutions in Spring 2012. DOE will offer technical assistance to ensure that major sources burning coal or oil have information on cost-effective clean energy strategies for compliance, such as natural gas CHP, and to promote cleaner, more efficient boilers to cut harmful pollution and reduce operational costs.
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News
White House Announces Executive Order on Industrial Energy Efficiency, including Combined Heat and Power
August 30, 2012
Events
Fundamentals of Compressed Air Systems WE
September 5-26, 2012
