Industry Leaders on District Energy
International District Energy Association's 25th campus Energy Conference
What is Clean Energy?
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is...
an efficient and clean approach to generating electric power and useful
thermal energy from a single fuel source at the point of use. . Every
CHP application involves the recovery of otherwise-wasted thermal energy
to produce cooling, heating or process thermal energy or electricity,
improving energy efficiency and reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.
CHP already supplies over 10% of our nation's electricity, and can and
should supply more.
District Energy is...
CHP, central heating, and/or central cooling applied to an entire
university, office park, medical campus, mixed use sustainable
development, or downtown. Over 400 building networks in the U.S. already
use district energy, and the number is on the rise.
Waste Heat Recovery is...
capturing waste heat that an industrial site or combustion process is
already emitting, and using it to provide useful thermal energy
elsewhere in the facility or turning it into clean electricity or
mechanical power. Waste heat recovery for power generation is also known
as bottoming cycle CHP or waste-heat-to power.
All of these are...
CLEAN ENERGY
APPLICATIONS - a better solution for our country's energy supply,
economy, and environment.
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