Cogeneration
www.Cogeneration.net

NOW AVAILABLE DUE TO ORDER CANCELLATION - 
TEN (10) 3 MEGAWATT COGENERATION POWER PLANTS
NEW - ZERO HOURS ON ENGINES - MUST SELL -
****    ONE YEAR WARRANTY    ****
$1.595,000.00 EACH (approximately $500.00/kW)
FOR MORE INFORMATION
CALL (512) 220 - 1498 
OR SEND EMAIL TO: info @ cogeneration .net 
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Sometimes referred to as "Combined Heat and Power" or "CHP"
is about 3 times more efficient than typical power plants

"Cooling, Heating and Power" and 
"Cooling, Heating and Power for Buildings"
are terms for "trigeneration."

We are the ONLY Company that Builds Integrated Cogeneration & Trigeneration Energy Plants on a Single Skid with Effective System Efficiencies that Exceed 90%

LEASING OPTIONS NOW AVAILABLE
ON OUR NEW COGENERATION AND TRIGENERATION POWER PLANTS!


Our Exclusive (Optional) SCR System Reduces Nitrogen Oxides To "Non-Detect" and
Without Ammonia or Urea


Our small footprint Cogeneration and Trigeneration Plants measurements are 
15' wide by 15' in height by and 55' in length

We Can Design, Build, and Install Your Next Cogeneration or Trigeneration Power Plant and have it online in less than 150 days using any industrial engine or turbine*

* We will NOT use - or consider using - Capstone microturbines or Kawasaki turbines in ANY of our power plants.

Let Us Design, Build, and Install Your Next Cogeneration or Trigeneration Power Plant!

Our "Turnkey" Integrated Cogeneration & Trigeneration Energy Systems are Available from 60 kW to over 10 MW with system efficiencies > 90% While Providing Practically-free Heating (and Cooling with Trigeneration) and generating power for commercial and industrial customers for as low as 4 cents/kW!  We are the only company that builds, fabricates, packages (on a single skid) and "integrates" Cogeneration and Trigeneration power plants.

Standard Cogeneration and Trigeneration Power Plants sizes in kW:

     60 kW                200 kW                   450 kW                   750 kW          
     75 kW                250 kW                   500 kW                   800 kW
   100 kW               300 kW                    600 kW                   850 kW
   150 kW               400 kW                    700 kW                   900 kW

Standard Cogeneration and Trigeneration Power Plants sizes in MW:

           1 MW          2 MW          3 MW          4 MW          5 MW

We can package any combination of standard size plants to come up with your optimum size system. Our standard and customized Cogeneration and Trigeneration power plants use the leading brands of reciprocating engines or turbines and include our proprietary Waste Heat Recovery technologies that help us achieve system efficiencies greater than 90% and effective heat rates as low as 4050 btu's/kW.  We provide both standard and customized Cogeneration and Trigeneration plants that meet our customer's most stringent economic and environmental requirements.

Our Cogeneration and  Trigeneration Power Plants can run on renewable fuels for even greater environmental and economic savings! These fuels or energy sources include: Biomethane, B100 Biodiesel, Dimethyl-Ether and natural gas fuels as well as Solar energy in our Solar Trigeneration power plants.  Efficiencies of our Cogeneration and Trigeneration power plants are now exceeding 90% with up to 95% lower emissions when using Biomethane and B100 Biodiesel fuel.

Not sure what size cogeneration or trigeneration power plant to order or whether cogeneration or trigeneration is right for your business?  

We can help!

Our Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility will help you make a decision whether one of our cogeneration or trigeneration power plants are right for your facility. 

Our Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility costs $50,000.00 (for most facilities) plus $2,500.00 deposit toward our reimbursable expenses as our fee does not include costs for travel, lodging and incidental expenses in the event we need to travel to your facility.

The Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility requires 60 - 90 days to complete.  At the conclusion and delivery of our Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility, you will know if your facility is a candidate for either cogeneration or trigeneration.  Our recommendations will include the optimum size cogeneration or trigeneration power plant for your facility. You will also have our estimate as to how much money you will save by installing one of our cogeneration or trigeneration power plants at your facility.

If you order your new cogeneration or trigeneration power plant from us within 30 days of the date of delivery of our Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility, we will reduce the cost of your new cogeneration or trigeneration power plant by half the cost of the study or $25,000.00 and apply the fee to the purchase.   For us to get started on the Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility Study, we require one half of the fee or $25,000.00 plus the $2,500.00 deposit advance toward our reimbursable expenses.  The $25,000.00 balance is due when we deliver our report. Call (832) 758 - 0027 to schedule our Phase I Cogeneration/Trigeneration Feasibility Study. 

For pricing and delivery information on our Cogeneration or Trigeneration power plants, call (832) 758 - 0027 or send an email with your project's requirements to:  info @ cogeneration .net

Pictures of the Newest 900 kW Cogeneration Plant Presently Being Built for New Customer Features (2) Guascor Natural Gas Engines 
@ 450 kW each on one Skid for a Total of 900 kW

Our New "Integrated" Cogeneration and Trigeneration Plants have Very High Efficiencies & Low Fuel Costs.
The Effective Heat Rate is Approximately
4050 btu/kW & System Efficiency is 92%

For pricing and delivery information on our Cogeneration or Trigeneration power plants, call (832) 758 - 0027 or send an email with your goals, objectives and requirements to:  
info @ cogeneration .net

Cogeneration Technologies provides "turnkey" cogeneration and trigeneration power plant development services.

Cooler, Cleaner, Greener Power & Energy Solutions  project development services are one of our specialties. These projects are Kyoto Protocol compliant and generate clean energy and significantly fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Unlike most companies, we are equipment supplier/vendor neutral. This means we help our clients select the best equipment for their specific application. This approach provides our customers with superior performance, decreased operating expenses and increased return on investment. 

Cogeneration Technologies provides project development services that generate clean energy and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide emissions. Included in this are our turnkey "ecogeneration" products and services which includes renewable energy technologies, waste to energy, waste to watts™ and waste heat recovery solutions.  Other project development technologies include; Anaerobic Digester, Anaerobic Lagoon, Biogas Recovery, BioMethane, Biomass Gasification, and Landfill Gas To Energy, project development services. 

Products and services provided by Cogeneration Technologies includes the following power and energy project development services: 

• Project Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies  

• Engineering, Procurement and Construction

• Environmental Engineering & Permitting 

• Project Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease

• Shared/Guaranteed Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients 

• Project Commissioning 

• 3rd Party Ownership and Project Development

• Long-term Service Agreements

• Operations & Maintenance 

• Green Tag (Renewable Energy Credit, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Emission Reduction Credits) Brokerage Services; Application and Permitting

For more information: call us at: 832-758-0027

We are Renewable Energy Technologies specialists and develop clean power and energy projects that will generate a "Renewable Energy Credit," Carbon Dioxide Credits  and Emission Reduction Credits.  Some of our products and services solutions and technologies include; Absorption Chillers, Adsorption Chillers, Automated Demand Response, Biodiesel Refineries, Biofuel Refineries, Biomass Gasification, BioMethane, Canola Biodiesel, Coconut Biodiesel, Cogeneration, Concentrating Solar Power, Demand Response Programs, Demand Side Management, Energy Conservation Measures, Energy Master Planning, Engine Driven Chillers, Geothermal Heatpumps, Groundsource Heatpumps, Solar CHP, Solar Cogeneration, Rapeseed Biodiesel, Solar Electric Heat Pumps, Solar Electric Power Systems, Solar Heating and Cooling, Solar Trigeneration, Soy Biodiesel, Trigeneration, and Watersource Heatpumps.

Cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power (cogeneration) or CHP, and total energy, is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. That is, cogeneration uses heat that is otherwise discarded from conventional power generation to produce thermal energy. This energy is used to provide cooling or heating for industrial facilities, district energy systems, and commercial buildings. By recycling this waste heat, cogeneration systems achieve typical effective electric efficiencies of 50% to 70% — a dramatic improvement over the average 33% efficiency of conventional fossil-fueled power plants. Cogenerations' higher efficiencies reduce air emissions of nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxide, mercury, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with climate change.

More About Cogeneration

Cogeneration now produces almost 10% of our nation's electricity, saves its customers up to 40% on their energy expenses, and provides even greater savings to our environment. 

Cogeneration, as previously described above, is also known as “combined heat and power” (CHP), cogen, district energy, total energy, and combined cycle, is the simultaneous production of heat (usually in the form of hot water and/or steam) and power, utilizing one primary fuel. 

Cogeneration technology is not the latest industry buzz-word being touted as the solution to our nation's energy woes. Cogeneration is a proven technology that has been around for over 100 years. Our nation's first commercial power plant was a cogeneration plant that was designed and built by Thomas Edison in 1882 in New York. Primary fuels commonly used in cogeneration include natural gas, oil, diesel fuel, propane, coal, wood, wood-waste and bio-mass. These "primary" fuels are used to make electricity, a "secondary" fuel. This is why electricity, when compared on a btu to btu basis, is typically 3-5 times more expensive than primary fuels such as natural gas.

An example of a cogeneration process would be the automobile in which the primary fuel (gasoline) is burned in an internal combustion engine - this produces both mechanical and electrical energy (cogeneration). These combined energies, derived from the combustion process of the car's engine, operate the various systems of the automobile, including the drive-train or transmission (mechanical power), lights (electrical power), air conditioning (mechanical and electrical power), and heating of the car's interior when heat is required to keep the car's occupants warm. This heat, which is manufactured by the engine during the combustion process, was “captured” from the engine and then re-directed to the passenger compartment. 

Due to competitive pressures to cut costs and reduce emissions of air pollutants and greenhouse gasses, owners and operators of industrial and commercial facilities are actively looking for ways to use energy more efficiently. One option is cogeneration, also known as combined heat and power (CHP). Cogeneration/CHP is the simultaneous production of electricity and useful heat from the same fuel or energy. Facilities with cogeneration systems use them to produce their own electricity, and use the unused excess (waste) heat for process steam, hot water heating, space heating, and other thermal needs. They may also use excess process heat to produce steam for electricity production. Cogeneration currently coexists with a regulated industry that is going through major structural changes that may limit or expand its application.

Regulatory Issues 

The concept of cogeneration is not new. Early in this century, before there was an extensive network of power lines, many industries had cogeneration plants. As utilities became established and grew, most states began to regulate them in order to limit their pricing power. 

The Public Utilities Holding Act of 1935 (PUHCA), together with amendments to the Federal Power Act (also in 1935), were the final steps in protecting utility companies from competition. These laws created vertically integrated utilities with responsibility for the production, transmission, and distribution of power. In exchange for their exclusive franchises (territories) and guaranteed revenues, utilities agreed to government regulation of rates and service. Under these rules, more investments in infrastructure and more sales meant more profits. As the network of power lines grew and electricity from utilities became more economical, industrial facilities bought more of their electricity from utilities. However, many industries still had to generate process heat on-site. The economies of scale that the utilities were able to obtain at that time, as well as the availability of low-priced process heat from cheap oil and gas, removed incentives to retain cogeneration equipment.

In the past three decades, however, the long-term trend of energy prices generally moved upward. Building more and more large power plants no longer provided economies of scale. This was a major factor in the increasing use of cogeneration by commercial and industrial facilities.

The Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA) provided further encouragement for developers of cogeneration plants. Section 210 requires utilities to purchase excess electricity generated by "qualifying facilities" (QFs) and to provide backup power at a reasonable cost. QFs included plants that used renewable resources and/or cogeneration technologies to produce electricity. PURPA cogenerators must use at least 5% of their thermal output for process or space heating (10% for facilities that burn oil or natural gas). In many cases, this forced independent cogenerators to accept very low rates for their steam production in order to become a qualifying facility under PURPA. Another problem is the rate at which utilities purchase a cogenerator’s excess power production. 
 
Most states set the price at "avoided cost," or the cost to the utility of producing that extra power. Utilities with excess power generation capacity are often allowed to have extremely low avoided costs. This practice has created artificial barriers to cogeneration as well as to independent power generators.
The Energy Policy Act of 1992 (EPAct) tried to create a more competitive marketplace for electricity generation. It created a new class of power generators known as Exempt Wholesale Generators (EWGs). These are exempt from PUHCA regulation and can sell power competitively to wholesale customers. A cogeneration facility can be (but does not have to be) a QF under PURPA and an EWG under EPAct. This happens when the facility is in the exclusive business of wholesale power sales, and makes no retail power sales to its "steam host" (customer).

Cogeneration Technologies

A typical cogeneration system consists of an engine, steam turbine, or combustion turbine that drives an electrical generator. A waste heat exchanger recovers waste heat from the engine and/or exhaust gas to produce hot water or steam. Cogeneration produces a given amount of electric power and process heat with 10% to 30% less fuel than it takes to produce the electricity and process heat separately.

There are two main types of cogeneration techniques: "Topping Cycle" plants, and "Bottoming Cycle" plants. 

A topping cycle plant generates electricity or mechanical power first. Facilities that generate electrical power may produce the electricity for their own use, and then sell any excess power to a utility. There are four types of topping cycle cogeneration systems. The first type burns fuel in a gas turbine or diesel engine to produce electrical or mechanical power. The exhaust provides process heat, or goes to a heat recovery boiler to create steam to drive a secondary steam turbine. This is a combined-cycle topping system. The second type of system burns fuel (any type) to produce high-pressure steam that then passes through a steam turbine to produce power. The exhaust provides low-pressure process steam. This is a steam-turbine topping system. A third type burns a fuel such as natural gas, diesel, wood, gasified coal, or landfill gas. The hot water from the engine jacket cooling system flows to a heat recovery boiler, where it is converted to process steam and hot water for space heating. The fourth type is a gas-turbine topping system. A natural gas turbine drives a generator. The exhaust gas goes to a heat recovery boiler that makes process steam and process heat. A topping cycle cogeneration plant always uses some additional fuel, beyond what is needed for manufacturing, so there is an operating cost associated with the power production.

Bottoming cycle plants are much less common than topping cycle plants. These plants exist in heavy industries such as glass or metals manufacturing where very high temperature furnaces are used. A waste heat recovery boiler recaptures waste heat from a manufacturing heating process. This waste heat is then used to produce steam that drives a steam turbine to produce electricity. Since fuel is burned first in the production process, no extra fuel is required to produce electricity.

An emerging technology that has cogeneration possibilities is the fuel cell. A fuel cell is a device that converts hydrogen to electricity without combustion. Heat is also produced. Most fuel cells use natural gas (composed mainly of methane) as the source of hydrogen. The first commercial availability of fuel cell technology was the phosphoric acid fuel cell, which has been on the market for a few years. There are about 50 installed and operating in the United States. Other fuel cell technologies (molten carbonate and solid oxide) are in early stages of development. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) may be potential source for cogeneration, due to the high temperature heat generated by their operation.

Cogeneration Applications

Cogeneration systems have been designed and built for many different applications. Large-scale systems can be built on-site at a plant, or off-site. Off-site plants need to be close enough to a steam customer (or municipal steam loop) to cover the cost of a steam pipeline. Industrial or commercial facility owners can operate the plants, or a utility or a non-utility generator (NUG) may own and operate them. Manufacturers use 90% of all cogeneration systems. Some industries and waste incinerator operators who own their own equipment realize sizable profits with cogeneration.

Another large-scale application of cogeneration is for district heating and cooling. Many colleges, hospitals, office buildings and even cities, that have extensive district heating and cooling systems, have at their core, a cogeneration or trigeneration power plant. The University of Florida has a 42 Megawatt (MW) gas turbine cogeneration plant, built in partnership with the Florida Power Corporation. Some large cogeneration facilities were built primarily to produce power. They produce only enough steam to meet the requirements for qualified facilities under PURPA. If no steam host is nearby, one can be built. For example, there are large (80 MW) plants operating under PURPA that have large greenhouses as "steam hosts." The greenhouses operate without losing money only because their steam heat is virtually free of charge. These types of plants are candidates to become EWGs in the new regulatory environment.

Many utilities have formed subsidiaries to own and operate cogeneration plants. These subsidiaries are successful due to the operation and maintenance experience that the utilities bring to them. They also usually have a long-term sales contract lined up before the plant is built. One example is a 300 MW plant that is owned and operated by a subsidiary co-owned by a utility and an oil company. The utility feeds the power directly into its grid. The oil company uses the steam to increase production from its nearby oil wells.

Cogeneration Applications

Cogeneration systems are also available to small-scale users of electricity. Small-scale packaged or "modular" systems are being manufactured for commercial and light industrial applications. Modular cogeneration systems are compact, and can be manufactured economically. These systems, ranging in size from 20 kilowatts (kW) to 650 kW produce electricity and hot water from engine waste heat. It is usually best to size the systems to meet the hot water needs of a building. Thus, the best applications are for buildings such as hospitals or restaurants that have a year-round need for hot water or steam. They can be operated continuously or only during peak load hours to reduce peak demand charges, although continuous operation usually has the quickest payback period.

Several companies also attempted to develop systems that burn natural gas and fuel oil for private residences. These home-sized cogeneration packages had a capacity of up to 10 kW, and were capable of providing most of the heating and electrical needs for a home. As of May 2000, none of the companies that developed these systems are selling these units. Several fuel call manufacturers are targeting residential and small commercial applications.

Environmental Issues

While cogeneration provides several environmental benefits by making use of waste heat and waste products, air pollution is a concern any time fossil fuels or biomass are burned. The major regulated pollutants include particulates, sulfur dioxide (SO2), and nitrous oxides (NOx). Water quality, while a lesser concern, can also be a problem. New cogeneration plants are subject to an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) permit process designed to meet National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Many states have stricter regulations than the EPA. This can add significantly to the initial cost of some cogeneration facilities located in urban areas.

Some cogeneration systems, such as diesel engines, do not capture as much waste heat as other systems. Others may not be able to use all the thermal energy that they produce because of their location. They are therefore less efficient, and the corresponding environmental benefits are less than they could be. The environmental impacts of air and water pollution and waste disposal are very site-specific for cogeneration. This is a problem for some cogeneration plants because the special equipment (water treatment, air scrubbers, etc.) required to meet environmental regulations adds to the cost of the project. If, on the other hand, pollution control equipment is required for the primary industrial or commercial process anyway, cogeneration can be economically attractive.

Even the environmental groups are on the cogeneration bandwagon. Since its' founding, the Sierra Club has supported total energy (cogeneration). See the Sierra Club's statement on energy policy.   

Future Market Development

Several factors will affect the growth of cogeneration activities. They include the initial cost of buying and bringing a cogeneration system on-line, maintenance costs, and environmental control requirements. Some electric utilities do not need additional electricity. They may have excess generation capacity or a stable customer base. This leads to lower "avoided cost" rates, which reduces the viability of cogeneration projects that rely heavily on power sales to utilities.

The restructuring of the electric power generation and distribution industry that is currently underway in many states, makes it more attractive for developers to become independent power producers and to build "electricity only" power plants, instead of cogeneration plants. There has also been a great deal of pressure from utility and industrial special interests to repeal or amend PURPA. If they are successful, it could be difficult for new cogeneration projects to get off the ground. Barring that development, improved technology and cooperation among industries, businesses, utilities, and financiers should provide impetus to the continued development of both cogeneration projects and independent power production projects.

One significant impetus for cogeneration is the issue of global climate change from global warming caused by the greenhouse effect, of which fossil fuel combustion is a major contributor. 

Cogeneration is the environmentally-friendly, economically-sensible way to produce power, simultaneously saving significant amounts of money and also dramatically reducing total greenhouse gas emissions.

Cogeneration Technologies

Cogeneration technologies are conventional power generation systems with the means to make use of the energy remaining in exhaust gases, cooling systems, or other energy waste stream. Typical cogeneration prime movers include:

                                                           Combustion turbines
                                                           Reciprocating engines
                                                           Boilers with steam turbines
                                                           Microturbines
                                                           Fuel cells

Cogeneration Benefits

Cogeneration offers energy, environmental, and economic benefits, including:

Saving money

By improving efficiency, cogeneration systems can reduce fuel costs associated with providing heat and electricity to a facility.

Improving power reliability

Cogeneration systems are located at the point of energy use. They provide high-quality and reliable power and heat locally to the energy user, and they also help reduce congestion on the electric grid by removing or reducing load. In this way, cogeneration systems effectively assist or support the electric grid, providing enhanced reliability in electricity transmission and distribution.

Reducing environmental impact

Because of its improved efficiency in fuel conversion, cogeneration reduces the amount of fuel burned for a given energy output and reduces the corresponding emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases.

Conserving limited resources of fossil fuels

Because cogeneration requires less fuel for a given energy output, the use of cogeneration reduces the demand on our limited natural resources—including coal, natural gas, and oil—and improves our nation's energy security.

Where Can cogeneration Be Used?

Cogeneration installations are most likely to be economically viable at locations where the following characteristics exist:

* Coincident demand for electricity and thermal energy (i.e., steam, heating, or cooling) during most of the year.

* Access to fuels, including natural gas, biomass, and/or by-product fuels.

The following are typical markets for cogeneration:

Energy-intensive industries, including the chemical, refining, forest products, food, and pharmaceutical sectors.

District energy systems that distribute heat or chilled water to a network of buildings. Such systems show the greatest promise in downtown areas, industrial parks, college campuses, military bases, and other large institutional facilities.

High power reliability/quality applications, such as Internet or telecommunications data centers requiring high-quality, reliable power and substantial cooling capacity.

Institutional markets, including hospitals, hotels, and convention centers where large year-round demands exist for electricity, heating, and cooling.

Abandoned industrial sites, or brownfields, where cogeneration-based systems can provide the energy infrastructure for "power parks," facilitating economic redevelopment of underutilized properties.

Commercial buildings—as building-scale cogeneration technologies become better integrated and increasingly cost-effective, this market offers large potential for new applications.

A small sample of successful businesses now using cogeneration include:

Agriculture, apartment buildings, auto/car dealerships, casinos, cold storage facilities, communications sites, convenience stores, credit card processing facilities, customer service centers, dairies, fabrication plants, feed yards, foundries, golf courses, government buildings, commercial greenhouses and nurseries, grocery stores, hospitals, hotels, ice skating rinks, industrial parks, ISP's, landfills, laundries/laundromats, malls, manufacturing plants, military bases and installations, motels, nursing homes, oil & gas leases, office buildings, paper & pulp, parking garages, printing companies, processing plants, radio stations, resorts, restaurants, retail stores, retirement homes, schools, server farms, shopping centers, sports complexes, steel manufacturing, supermarkets, television stations, universities, warehouses, waste treatment facilities, wineries

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Supports Cogeneration.....

Because the average efficiency of the fossil-fueled power plants in the U.S. is around 30-33% and has remained virtually unchanged since the 1930's. This means that two-thirds of the energy in the fuel is lost as heat. Cogeneration systems recycle this waste heat and convert it to useful energy and achieve effective electrical efficiencies of 50% to 70%. This improvement reduces emissions of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxide, mercury, particulate matter, and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with climate change. In addition to reducing air pollution, cogeneration conserves our limited fossil fuel resources, thereby increasing our nation's energy self-sufficiency.

Commercial and residential customers (with air-conditioning requirements of at least 10 tons to over 400 tons) can reduce electric expenses up to 60% (or more), every month after installing our Quadgeneration™ system, which includes our Solar Heating and Cooling System. For qualified commercial and residential customers in California, Texas, Louisiana, Hawaii, Arizona, and Nevada, we will install and finance our Quadgeneration system (including our solar heating and cooling system) with little to no out of pocket expenses and guarantee a savings of 10% over your existing electric utility costs.   

Trigeneration produces three energies (cooling, heating and power) for the price of one, is about 90% efficient, 300% more efficient than electricity generated from central power plants and Kyoto Protocol compliant. This makes trigeneration the cleanest, most environmentally friendly, and least cost method to generate electricity using any fossil fuel (i.e. natural gas) or renewable fuel such as biomethane, biodiesel or ethanol.  Compared with electricity generated from electric utilities central power plants, trigeneration power plants have significantly fewer emissions, provide dramatically lower power/energy expenses, and may provide a return on investment in less than 36 months for our commercial, industrial, municipal and utility customers. 

We are specialists in project funding and financing of clean power and energy projects as well as consultants in Emission Reduction Credits, Certified Emission Reductions, Carbon Dioxide Credits, Renewable Portfolio Standards, and Renewable Energy Credits. For qualified commercial and industrial clients, we offer energy performance contracting services which means we will design/engineer, build, finance, own, operate and maintain our power and energy solutions with little to no investment requirements from the client.  

April 22, 2005:  Cogeneration Technologies and Yazaki Energy enter into strategic sales and marketing agreement. Cogeneration Technologies now represents the leading line of absorption chillers and chiller heaters by Yazaki Energy - exclusively in Texas and Louisiana.  This includes Yazaki's solar, natural gas, and waste heat/exhaust gas fired absorption chillers and chiller-heaters.

Electricity and energy rates are sky-rocketing across the U.S. and Canada!  Ask us about our "no-cost*" state-of-the art "Trigeneration" system for your qualified commercial or industrial business! Trigeneration is about 90% efficient and produces cooling, heating and power simultaneously for commercial and industrial customers... three energies for the price of one! Our B100 Biodiesel fueled cogeneration and trigeneration power plants are the coolest, cleanest, greenest ways to produce power and energy and also have a greater return on investment through their associated REC's (Renewable Energy Credit) that can be as much as $200/megawatt hour, depending on location!

1.  Does your commercial or industrial business need to significantly reduce its' electric
     expenses? 
2.  Does your company spend at least $100,000 each month on its' electric bill? 
3.  Does your business need: 
     a.  continuous power of at least 500 kW
     b.  continuous hot water and/or steam requirements
     c.  and/or continuous chilled water for process or air-conditioning requirements? 
4.  Does your commercial or industrial business have an excellent credit rating?

If you can answer yes to the above, your company may qualify for our state-of-the-art trigeneration system (500 kW to 50 megawatts) at no cost!  Our company now has access to the capital markets and lenders that will help finance new trigeneration projects built in the U.S. for qualified commercial and industrial customers with a minimum power requirement of 500 kW.  Call (832) 758 - 0027 for more information. 

We are the trigeneration experts! Trigeneration is the cleanest, most efficient, environmentally friendly, and least-expensive method to produce our client's electricity, hot water, steam, and chilled water for air-conditioning and process applications. Trigeneration at 86% to 93% (when using natural gas or biomethane) system efficiency - significantly reduces our client's energy expenses, conserves natural resources, reduces the need for foreign oil imports, and also provides significant environmental benefits, including reductions of up to 90% of greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, nitrogen oxides and other hazardous air pollutants. Trigeneration is also Kyoto Protocol compliant, having far fewer emissions than any other electricity generating technology, with the exceptions of hydro, hydrogen, solar, wind and geothermal.  Compared with electricity generated from a central power plant, trigeneration is about 300% more efficient. 

As an Energy Service Company, we provide other energy and power solutions - at no cost - for qualified commercial and industrial customers.  Like our no-cost trigeneration power plants, our commercial and industrial customers pay for these solutions out of the energy savings our trigeneration plants generate for our customers. Other energy solutions may include: Absorption Chillers, Adsorption Chillers, Automated Demand Response, Cogeneration, Demand Response Programs, Demand Side Management, Energy Master Planning, Engine Driven Chillers, Trigeneration and Energy Conservation Measures.  

Our Decentralized Energy, or Distributed Generation and Dispersed Generation power and energy systems provide our clients with the highest return on investment with maximum environmental benefits that are Kyoto Protocol compliant, and significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and carbon dioxide emissions.  Now is the time for cities, municipal and governmental clients to consider having our company install Dispersed Generation power, also referred to as "Dispersed Power" plants to avoid the coming electricity shortages and grid congestion problems! We will provide a 20 megawatt to 100 megawatt dispersed generation power plant for as low as $45/megawatt hour! We help cities and communities create a Municipal Utility District or Public Utility District that may also qualify for our very competitively priced energy and electricity rates.

To find out more about cogeneration, read our article; What is Cogeneration? To find out more about trigeneration, read our article on Trigeneration.  Click here to find out more about us.

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Cogeneration On-line for Global Power Surge

Our company's focus is on "optimum" power and energy solutions for our customers - which means we utilize "Trigeneration" energy/power systems when customers require electricity and 2 other forms of thermal energy, such as chilled water for air-conditioning and steam/hot water. And, our "optimized" clean power and energy systems are Kyoto Protocol compliant! 

Why worry about your company's power and energy problems any longer? 

EGS wants to be your company's outsource partner and supplier for your company's  power and energy services. Our focus is to eliminate your company's power and energy problems, reduce your energy expenses, and increase your profits.

We put an end to your company's;

     * Power Interruptions & Black-Outs
     * Environmental and Emissions Concerns
     * Power Quality Problems
     * Increasing Power, Energy and Fuel Expenses

Our company's focus and core competencies are in the areas of clean energy and power systems for our commercial, industrial and utility clients. 

When EGS is selected as your company's energy and power supplier - we become your onsite power and energy partner, supplying an optimum power (electricity) and energy (hot water, chilled water and/or process steam) system, that allows you to focus on what your company does best - its' core competencies - and taking care of your customers. 

Our optimum power and energy systems are based on cogeneration, trigeneration and even quadgeneration systems. They have also been recently referred to as:

     * Buildings Cooling Heating And Power
     * CHP Systems / CHP Systems for Buildings
     * Combined Heat and Power 
     * Cooling Heating And Power
     * Cooling Heating And Power For Buildings
     * Integrated Energy Systems
     * Hybrid Energy Systems

These energy and power systems are the highest efficiency systems available, which means they save money (lower operating costs), conserve natural resources (less natural gas or other fuels required) and significantly less associated emissions/pollution.  No wonder the E.P.A. and the Sierra Club refer to this technology as "environmentally- friendly." Because are energy and power systems are so efficient, we are able to provide our customers with lower energy and power expenses with:

     * Greater Power Reliability (no more black-outs/power interruptions) 
     * Lower Energy (hot water, chilled water and process steam) Expenses
     * Lower Power (electricity) Prices

Our power and energy partnership with your company is based on several different formats of partnership - which allows our customers to select from our energy services that best meet your company's needs and requirements.  These include turnkey cogeneration, trigeneration or quadgeneration power/energy systems, including financing - and at no upfront expense requirements for qualified customers.  Under this format, EGS will build/own/operate/maintain the plant under our Power Purchase Agreement or Energy Services Agreement.

We provide the following products and services on an outsource/partnership basis or (EGS may consider buying your existing power/energy plant):

     * Process Steam Generation Services
     * District Energy Systems and District Heating & Cooling Systems
     * Compressed Air Energy Storage Services
     * Absorption Chillers
     * Engine driven chillers
     * Simple-Cycle Power Plants
     * Combined-Cycle Power Plants
     * Organic Rankine Cycle Plants
     * Energy Performance Contracting
     * Energy Savings Performance Contracts
     * Municipal Utility District and Public Utility District creation
     * Application of Qualifying Facilities status with FERC
     * Waste Heat and Waste Heat Recovery
     * Power Purchase Agreement and Energy Services Agreements
     
Environmental and Economic Benefits of Cogeneration and Trigeneration Power Systems

Did you know that existing cogeneration and trigeneration power/energy plants in the United States:

     *  Produce almost 10% of the electric power generated each year?
     *  Saves our natural resources and decreases the demand for OPEC oil imports due to
         cogeneration and trigeneration's much higher efficiencies? 
     *  Trigeneration energy/power plants reach and exceed 90% efficiency?
     *  Saves building owners and companies over $5 billion/year in energy costs?
     *  Decreases energy consumption by almost 1.3 trillion BTUs/year?
     *  Reduces nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions by 0.4 million tons/year? 
     *  Reduces sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions by over 0.9 million tons/year? 
     *  Prevents the release of over 35 million metric tons of carbon equivalent into the
         atmosphere?

Simple cycle power plants are 20% to 30% less efficient than combined cycle plants. And trigeneration power and energy plants are about 50% more efficient than combined cycle power plants.

Cogeneration and trigeneration power systems are "super-efficient" and environmentally-friendly.  In a Press Release announcing the initiation of the CHP ("combined heat and power or cogeneration)  Partnership, Christie Whitman, former Administrator of the EPA said that "Cogeneration is not only better than conventional electricity generation at reducing air pollution and fuel consumption, it's more reliable and costs less to do so … Founding partners in this program are leading the way toward a cleaner future."

Emissions associated with electric power from cogeneration plants can be significantly reduced when compared to power from non-cogeneration powerplants. Cogeneration plants, also called CHP systems - help reduce carbon emissions and other air emissions by increasing efficiency in the overall generation of electric power and energy usage, and by reducing transmission energy losses by moving the source of generation closer to the end-user.

Cogeneration saves energy by utilizing heat that other would be rejected increases energy efficiency by reducing the need for the generation of electricity by central station plants. By increasing energy efficiency, cogeneration and trigeneration plants helps to prevent "greenhouse gas emissions" (CO2) and other forms of air pollution. Increasing energy efficiency is a smart practice that helps the economy, too, by saving consumers and businesses million of dollars in energy costs each year. Carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) are a primary source of gases responsible for global warming concerns. The overwhelming share of U.S. and world CO2 emissions comes from burning fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, and gas. Burning fossil fuel also causes emissions of other greenhouse gases as well, such as methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O). The Department of Energy has several initiatives in collaboration with EPA that will help to increase efficiency by improving overall energy performance in commercial buildings, school systems, local governments, homes, transportation networks, electricity plants, and many other areas.

Cogeneration power plants or "CHP systems" offer great potential for improving the environment as cogeneration plants significantly reduce carbon dioxide emissions and greenhouse gas emissions by 45% or more, when compared with non-cogeneration produced power. In the September 1997 Scenarios of U.S. Carbon Reductions, five DOE laboratories examined more than 200 technologies, and found that the application of three power generation technologies for CHP applications -advanced turbines, fuel cells, and integrated combined cycle technologies - accounted for nearly 10% of the projected carbon savings. The next generation of turbines, fuel cells, and reciprocating engines offers increased efficiency at reduced size and versatility in the ratio of electric or mechanical energy to thermal energy. These can be combined with advanced thermal recovery technologies for the highest possible overall total energy efficiency and lowest carbon emissions.

Reduced energy costs

Building owners can reduce their energy costs by deploying onsite cogeneration, or trigeneration plants because compared to conventional systems these systems provide the following advantages:

• Increased energy efficiency

• Reduced demand charge

• Reduced peak electric energy costs

Cogeneration and trigeneration power plants provide much higher energy efficiency than conventional stand-alone equipment items for similar degree of power reliability, comfort cooling, heating and indoor air quality. Because of the higher energy efficiency of the CHP system, it consumes nearly 40% less fuel than conventional systems. The reduced fuel consumption can significantly reduce energy costs.

The cost of electricity to buildings is generally based on power demand (measured in kW) and electric energy usage (measured in kWh). The power demand charge is generally a monthly charge ($/kW) based on the peak/maximum power used during a month for a specified period, generally 15 minutes to 30 minutes. Power demand charge rates can vary with time-of-year. CHP systems reduce power demand in two ways: 1) by generating some of the power at site, and 2) by using thermal energy from power generation equipment, instead of electricity, for operating cooling, heating and/or humidity control equipment.

The charge for electric energy usage generally varies with the time-of-year and the time-of-day. This charge is the highest during peak periods, generally from 9AM until 3PM, and the least during off-peak period, generally from midnight until 7AM. Therefore, primary reduction in electric energy cost savings for using onsite cogeneration, or trigeneration, comes from avoiding purchase of electric energy during peak periods.

Reduced life-cycle costs

Even though the initial cost of CHP systems for buildings is higher than purchasing all electric power needs and using conventional chillers and boilers for cooling, humidity control and heating needs, the life-cycle cost of the CHP systems is often lower because of the energy cost savings over its useful life of more than 20 years.

Attractive return on investment

As discussed above, on an overall basis, CHP systems can reduce energy costs for businesses. If the incremental installed cost of CHP systems over conventional systems is treated as an investment, and the annual savings in its energy costs are treated as the return on that investment, the return can be very attractive.

Improved power reliability

Economic losses due to power outages in the U.S. have cost American businesses billions of dollars. The following table shows the economic impact of power outages on some industries.

Since cogeneration plants generate power on-site or near-site, these systems improve power reliability by either reducing or eliminating a building's dependence on the electric power grid, and by providing an additional power option to the building. Also, because cogeneration plants are located at or near buildings, power outages experienced because of losing a distribution line are improbable.

The higher the number of buildings that use onsite cogeneration or trigeneration power plants, the lower the demand on the electric grid will be. In areas where the grid is at or near capacity, the reduced demand provided by CHP will result in increased grid reliability.

Why Partner with Us?

EcoGeneration Solutions, LLC. (EGS) will consider buying your facility’s existing energy/power plant which enables your company to free-up "tied-up" capital by owning a capital asset that produces no revenues for your company? Aren’t there better investments your company can make to generate revenues? 

When EGS buys your existing power/energy plant, you can use this capital to generate real revenues for your company!  After EGS acquires your company’s existing power/thermal/energy plant (district energy system, chilled water plant or thermal power plant), you are able to use our capital to make investments into your company that make better economic sense - and lead to new revenues from revenue producing assets - instead of a non-revenue producing asset. We may make additional investments in the newly acquired EGS power/energy system - that makes it even more efficient by our adding additional capacity.  EGS will oversee the financing, design, engineering, project management, building and refurbishing of the power/energy plant. We also offer other partnerships that include  solutions that best fit your requirements. Other EGS onsite power generation services include; back-up power, peak shaving, load-following, demand side management, energy performance contracting, energy-efficient-lighting, absorption chillers, and engine-driven-chillers.

Our customers can expect electric power and thermal energy (hot water, steam and chilled water for air-conditioning) costs to be about 50% less than their current expenses (depends on location, energy and power uses, time of use and existing energy natural gas costs). Our clean power and energy systems provide the opportunity for our customers to select interruptible rates and/or reduce electric expenses through peak shaving. The most expensive times for buying electricity is during peak demand periods which are typically during the normal work day hours of 8-5, but depend on the electric utility provider. 

For our qualified customers, we will build, own and operate at no cost and zero investment, increase your power reliability factor and still reduce your energy expenses. We also offer 5, 10, 15 or 20 year lease-purchase agreements, power purchase agreements and other incentives that permit our customers to own the power and energy system at the conclusion of the lease or power purchase agreement.

For our utility clients that do not want to invest in central power plants, we offer standardized power plants that can be placed at strategic locations on your grid, such as substations or at other locations such as your large industrial client's properties.

All of our clean power plants and energy systems feature:

*  Fully automatic power/energy systems
*  Black-start capabilities
*  Island mode operation 
*  Load following 
*  Remote control and monitoring 
*  All operations and maintenance provided 
*  Stand-by power and emergency back-up 
*  Automatic start/stop 
*  Engineered "peaking" power plants for electric utility substation installation 
*  Interconnection engineering and design

What is cogeneration?  Cogeneration, also known as "combined heat and power" or CHP, is the simultaneous production of power and thermal energy from one fuel input. Cogeneration captures the "waste heat" that is lost in typical electric power plants. Once this "free" heat is captured, a cogeneration plant converts this into useful energy such as steam or hot water. 

Cogeneration is much more effective, and efficient method for generation power and useful energy, compared with non-cogeneration plants.  And, trigeneration is up to 50% more efficient than cogeneration! Trigeneration, at around 90% system efficiency is the most efficient, economic, and environmentally-friendly method to produce electric power and thermal energy (cooling, heating and power).  A cogeneration system's efficiency can reach 60%-80%.  And taking cogeneration one step further with "trigeneration" - trigeneration is up to 50% more efficient than typical cogeneration, often reaching 90% system efficiencies.  With cogeneration system efficiencies reaching 80%, a cogeneration system provides huge savings in fuel and electricity costs. 

Cogeneration is the "cooler, cleaner, greener" way to make power on-site, where it's needed. Cogeneration helps our environment as there are substantially fewer emissions that cause pollution - such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide when compared with typical power plants. Typical power plants waste up to 75% of the original fuel through heat loss, line transmission losses and other inefficiencies. Your electric utility's power plant efficiency is, at best - only 30% - 35% - and then they have the added line losses, and inefficiencies of transmitting the power from their power plant, to your facility - losing another 5% - 10% along the way.  Who ultimately pays for these inefficiencies and line losses?

EcoGeneration - "the" ecological and economic way to generate cleaner, greener power and energy for your business. EcoGeneration produces huge savings for our ecology, through the reduction, and sometimes complete elimination of the pollution typically associated with power generation, as well as our clients' economic bottom-line, through savings  as much as 90% decrease in fuel expenses.

New cogeneration and trigeneration power plants are eligible for a 30% cash rebate in California. Click here to find out more.

Like most of the people and companies we visit, just one intermittent power interruption can cost thousands of dollars.  That's why more and more businesses are seeking ways to become energy reliant and independent by providing their own onsite power.

Cogeneration's Time Has Come!  Cogeneration is proven technology - not the latest energy industry buzz-word. Cogeneration power plants have been around for over 100 years. Few people realize the very first power plant was a cogeneration plant designed and  built by Thomas Edison in New York in 1882!  With the countless numbers of cogeneration success stories, from around the world, it's no wonder "cogeneration is now on-line for a global power surge."

And, trigeneration can be up to 50% more efficient than cogeneration! Trigeneration provides four (4) different types of energy for the price of one! With a trigeneration power plant, you make electricity, hot water and/or steam, AND chilled water, with only one fuel input and combustion process. The easiest way to explain trigeneration is that you start with a cogeneration power plant and add additional equipment that takes the waste heat from a cogeneration plant to make chilled water for air conditioning or process uses. Trigeneration is also known as "Integrated Energy Systems," "Buildings, Cooling, Heating and Power." "Cooling, Heating and Power for Buildings," and "Combined Cooling Heating and Power." 

More information on trigeneration can be found in the following article on our website:
What Comes After Cogeneration?

An investment in a new cogeneration or trigeneration system can be very profitable. A cogeneration  power plant can pay for itself in about three years, maybe less, through its' overall system efficiency which means substantial fuel and electricity savings for you. You may be wondering how much money a new cogeneration power plant can save you? Call or e-mail us to find out.

Wondering how much it costs to operate and maintain your own onsite cogeneration or trigeneration power and energy system?  Find out here

Many companies are finding cogeneration to be a very popular choice, not only for their shareholders, since cogeneration saves their company much-needed capital through energy savings, but also from a public relations viewpoint since cogeneration is a cooler, cleaner, greener way to provide their company's onsite energy requirements. Mission critical companies - those who cannot afford ANY power interruptions - whose lifeblood depends on their power and energy supplies - companies such as data centers, server farms, customer support, call centers and hi-tech - new economy companies, are calling us to help them design Six-9's ( 9999.99% on-line power reliability) power systems and UPS (uninterruptible power supply) systems with cogeneration or trigeneration systems.

The Sierra Club supports cogeneration, also referred to as combined heat & power (CHP) and trigeneration. The Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) is promoting the use of cogeneration with new rules to encourage more power production through cogeneration. Proposed legislation now in the U.S. Congress supports more cogeneration power plants. Tax credits and/or accelerated depreciation are being considered for new cogeneration facilities.

According to a study by the Department of Energy and the Energy Information Administration, cogeneration & trigeneration power plants are going to play a significant role in helping meet the strict emissions requirements of the Kyoto Protocol - that calls for dramatically reduced carbon dioxide emissions from power plants - which has been associated with global warming and climate change. Read their report here

Commercial businesses that now profit from cogeneration or trigeneration power plants include restaurants, hospitals, universities (see our listing of colleges and universities), hotels, shopping centers/malls, office buildings, nursing homes, green houses and resorts.  Industrial businesses that have long-profited from cogeneration and trigeneration include manufacturing, paper and pulp, oil and gas, petro-chemical, agricultural, plastics and steel. Leading businesses are learning that cogeneration or trigeneration power provides a competitive advantage and a win-win investment for their customers, neighbors, employees, shareholders and our environment. 

To remain competitive and successful in today's global economy, companies are taking control of their own destinies by becoming energy self-reliant and cutting the cord to their "local" electric company by making their own power with on-site, "inside the fence" cogeneration  and trigeneration systems. Some businesses are electing NOT TO CONNECT to the local electric utility for their new facilities.

We also provide temporary, back-up and emergency power generators 24/7/365.  For permanent power, our cogeneration, trigeneration, and even quadgeneration experience is unsurpassed.  Our expertise is an asset to your company's needs in today's rapidly-changing world of black-outs, power shortages, and deregulation. With the present uncertainties of power reliability and deregulation of the electric industry, more and more businesses are seeking ways to become energy independent by providing their own onsite power generation. Few companies are better positioned to provide the cogeneration and trigeneration solutions your business needs than EcoGeneration Solutions. We are a full-service provider of energy engineering solutions. Our engineer's experience include power and thermal engineering (design, build, retrofit/upgrade, outsource) for power projects from under 1 megawatt to well over 50 MW. The question now is, can your company NOT afford a more efficient, reliable, environmentally-friendly, and profitable method to produce your on-site power?

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* Some of the above information from the Department of Energy website with permission.

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