Sentences with phrase «cogeneration plant»

A cogeneration plant is a facility that generates both electrical power and useful heat from a single energy source, such as natural gas or biomass. It uses this energy efficiently by capturing the heat produced during electricity generation and using it for heating or cooling purposes in nearby buildings or industrial processes. So, it's like having two useful outputs (electricity and heat) from one input (energy source). Full definition
Mr. Zannoni also said that Brazilian sugar mills burn most of their own bagasse to create energy in cogeneration plants, and increasingly have been selling the excess power to the national grid.
• 8.5 megawatt natural - gas cogeneration plant for electricity, using «waste heat» for hot water • Water conservation that saves between 32 % and 39 % inside, 60 % with drought - tolerant landscaping landscaping • Fleet of stretch limos powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) • Slot machine bases have a / c units, cooling guests from the ground up, rather than ceiling down cooling of empty space
Members of the state attorney general's office have inquired about municipal energy projects in Rensselaer County in the wake of an investigation of a Warren County cogeneration plant project that could have resulted in criminal charges had prosecutors decided to go that route.
Spencer P. Hellwig, the Saratoga county administrator, said cogeneration plant became «budget neutral.»
I can declare that I would be willing to spend 30 % more for electricity if it comes from natural gas cogeneration plants instead of pulverized coal plants, but that won't stop Peabody coal from building their state - subsidized coal plants in Illinois.
The new project by Falu Energi, Vatten and EcoDC AB will be powered by the local grid in Falun, which is exclusively fed by renewable sources including wind, solar, hydro and a nearby cogeneration plant.
Many biomass cogeneration plants and small hydropower plants are already in operation in Brazil, and more are under construction.
Stanford University Central Energy Facility is a campus - wide energy system that replaces a 100 percent fossil - fuel - based cogeneration plant with primarily electrical power, 65 percent of which comes from renewable sources (Credit: Tim Griffith)
The process is similar to what goes on in your car — think of the engine as a mini cogeneration plant.
Department officials had mulled a biogas cogeneration plant for a while.
The cogeneration plant — which will be built in a dormant Sheridan Avenue facility attached to the large steam plant that still is used to heat and cool the Capitol complex — and microgrid will supply the 98 - acre Plaza's power, with ability to produce up to 90 percent of the complex's annual electric energy needs.
-RRB- «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»
On March 12, the New York State Assembly amended the state budget bill addressing capital projects (A9504b) «for services and expenses related to the design and construction on Sheridan Avenue in Albany of a cogeneration plant and microgrid, to operate on renewable energy, natural gas and / or fuel oil.»
«They want them there just as an ultimate level of security, but they'll be roughly 90 percent less polluting than the existing ones... With just the diesel generators you can only power a couple of lights and maybe one elevator but if you actually wanted to use this as a shelter for an extended period of time you would need the cogeneration plant,» he said.
In Warren County, a multiyear investigation by the Sheriff's Department found there was probable cause to charge County Administrator Paul Dusek for allegedly misinforming the county board of supervisors during negotiation of an energy performance contract for a cogeneration plant.
He said the new owners wanted to «decommission» the cogeneration plant and re-connect to the grid.
The following year, Hudson Valley Community College also contracted with Siemens to build a cogeneration plant.
In May, a group of Kenyan forestry experts, including the conservation secretary of the country's Environment Ministry, warned that the mathenge tree could be at risk of extinction if the cogeneration plant's need for local biomass leads to overharvesting of the trees.
Their value for the interest in the cogeneration plant was $ 10 - $ 28 million, or $ 2.09 - $ 5.86 per share.
So a revised per share value might now be in the range of $ 12.54 - $ 15.78 assuming no residual value for the cogeneration plant.
One of the company's three assets became irremediably impaired just after I invested; the company has a 50 % interest in a cogeneration plant at a Kimberly - Clark facility in Alabama with a 15 year contract due to expire in 2019.
Once the existing contract expires in April of 2019 Regency will own an interest in a cogeneration plant that, from what I can understand, will have practically zero residual value.
The heat is often obtained from a cogeneration plant burning fossil fuels but increasingly biomass, although heat - only boiler stations, geothermal heating and central solar heating are also used.
Another major project is the completion of a refurbishment of the campus Central Utility Plant, a cogeneration plant that currently supplies about 50 percent of the electricity to the main campus, as well as heat and chilled water to most of the central campus buildings.
«A cogeneration plant realizes efficiency gains by combining the processes using fuel, typically natural gas, to run a combustion turbine to turn a generator and produce electricity.
A long - standing example is the use of excess heat from normal operations to convert steam to electricity in order to power a cogeneration plant.
«We run a cogeneration plant that also produces carbon - free district heat, which under the law is equivalent to renewable energy,» said Udo Brockmeier, chairman of utility Stadtwerke Düsseldorf in an interview published in Siemens» in - house magazine.
A cogeneration plant produces only one third the CO2 of a coal - fired power plant.
Achieved a 90 percent recovery (over $ 2 million) for an insurer arising out of damage caused by a backflow of steam at a cogeneration plant.
Designed AutoCAD Electrical layouts for the cogeneration plant on campus containing three 1 Megawatt generators and automatic transfer switches
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