Power Solutions

We design and implement comprehensive power system solutions that help our customers reduce energy costs and optimize the power serving their business.

Our focus is to assist customers who have a high exposure to power price increases, require a reliable source of power generation, have sensitive equipment susceptible to poor power quality, require central plant or equipment infrastructure upgrades or have a constant need for steam or hot water.

Increasingly, customers are choosing to include renewable power in their energy projects. Another successful solution for many institutions and businesses is the installation of a cogenerator.

What Is Cogeneration?
Cogeneration, or CHP (combined heat and power), is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from one fuel source, such as natural gas. The excess heat produced from the electricity-generating process is recovered and used in a variety of ways, including:

• Generation of additional electricity
• Heat/cooling source for industrial processes
• Space heating and cooling applications

The Advantages of Cogeneration
Cogeneration technology is more efficient than traditional generation methods because it harnesses heat that would otherwise be wasted.

In fact, cogeneration typically achieves a 15 percent to 35 percent reduction in primary energy usage compared with power stations and heat-only boilers, which means that:

• Energy costs are reduced.
• Emissions of pollutants to the environment are reduced.

And since cogeneration is a form of local or on-site power production:

• Electricity transmission and distribution losses (from large remote power stations) are avoided
• Urban air quality is improved by displacing old and inefficient boiler systems

Who Benefits From Cogeneration?
Commercial, industrial and institutional customers across sectors who may be:

• Subject to high or volatile energy rates
• High energy users with thermal needs (steam, hot water, chilled water)
• In need of replacing or adding to their current capacity of thermal energy assets, such as boilers and chillers
• Experiencing costly power outages and interruptions
• Planning business expansion with electrical and/or thermal load growth

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