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The U.S. DOE Intermountain Clean Energy Application Center works in the states of Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. While the numbers of clean energy installations in our region is not as high as some other areas of the country, the intermountain region nevertheless has a growing number of sites using clean energy – and a high potential that still needs to be fully tapped.

Clean energy installations in our region are concentrated in the industrial sector, although the institutional, commercial, and agricultural market sectors are increasingly becoming adopters of clean energy as well.

The Intermountain region is characterized by relatively low electric rates, due principally to the dominance of coal-fired base-load generation. Natural gas prices are generally in the midrange of other US regions. The combination of relatively low electric prices and rising natural gas prices makes it more difficult for a CHP project to be economic and generate cost savings. Thus, most clean energy systems in our region were installed for additional site-specific reasons that additively push the financial analysis into the black. Different for each company, these reasons have included the need for highly-reliable power; the need for a stably-priced energy; corporate policies for independence and self-reliance; replacement of older, inefficient legacy systems; voluntary greenhouse gas emission reduction goals; participation in a utility renewable portfolio program; utility-specific tariff issues; or our fastest growing reason: the availability of a waste fuel or waste heat source.

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We are one of eight U.S. DOE Intermountain Clean Energy Application Centers across the country.

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