District
Energy Systems
www.DistrictEnergySystems.com
We
provide District
Energy Systems which include a trigeneration power plant at the heart of
our district energy system. District Energy Systems combine a
trigeneration power plant with District Heating and
District Cooling distribution loops
that distribute electricity, hot
water, steam and chilled water from our central "trigeneration"
power/energy plant's location to multiple buildings, oftentimes on a
campus setting or in a downtown area.
District Energy, or, "trigeneration"
plants at about 90% system efficiency, are about 300% more efficient and
environmentally-friendly than typical, "central" power plants. Trigeneration
plants are an excellent and ideal energy and power solution for multiple
building locations such as;
* College and University Campuses
* Industrial Parks
* Schools
* Government Installations such as military
bases
* Hospitals
* Office Buildings in downtown areas
We also offer energy-saving technologies that
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.
Cooler,
Cleaner, Greener Power & Energy Solutions
project development services are one of our many 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:
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Project
Engineering Feasibility & Economic Analysis Studies
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Engineering,
Procurement and Construction
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Environmental
Engineering & Permitting
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Project
Funding & Financing Options; including Equity Investment, Debt
Financing, Lease and Municipal Lease
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Shared/Guaranteed
Savings Program with No Capital Investment from Qualified Clients
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Project
Commissioning
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3rd
Party Ownership and Project Development
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Long-term
Service Agreements
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Operations
& Maintenance
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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.
District Energy Systems
produce and distribute electricity, hot water, steam and chilled water from a central "trigeneration" power/energy
plant's location to multiple buildings, oftentimes on a campus setting.
District Energy Systems are very efficient and environmentally-friendly
alternatives to traditional systems. District Energy Systems
are an excellent and ideal energy and power solution for multiple building
locations such as;
* College and University Campuses
* Industrial Parks
* Schools
* Government Installations such as military bases
* Hospitals
* Office Buildings in downtown areas
A District Energy System's energy and power distribution
"grid" distribute the power and energy through underground pipes
to the buildings connected to the system. Individual buildings connected
to the system, therefore, do not need boilers, chillers or cooling towers.
Customers use the hot water and chilled water to meet their space heating,
water heating, processing and air-conditioning needs. Once the energy (hot
water, steam and chilled water) are "used" by the individual
buildings, the water is returned to the central plant which is then either
re-heated and/or re-chilled... and then re-circulated throughout the
underground, closed-loop pipes of the District Energy System.
District Energy
System Concept:
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Key Benefits of a District Energy System:
Another
benefit of District Energy Systems is that the buildings served by
the DES do not need their own HVAC/mechanical equipment – i.e. the
individual buildings served by the District Energy System do not
need individual boilers, chillers, water heaters, etc., since this
is all provided by the DES' trigeneration system.
This represents a significant savings in first costs of these
capital assets for the building, as well as the related operating
and maintenance expenses for them.
The mechanical rooms, boiler rooms and chiller plant spaces
that once was “wasted” space for this equipment - can now be
used for revenue-producing space such as office space, data centers,
or storage rooms for the building’s tenants.
In heating
mode; as each of the buildings connected to the District Energy
System has their own heat exchangers and control valves,
transferring the thermal energy (hot water and/or steam) from the
district heating system water to the building’s own HVAC
distribution system is simple, measured and precise. Cooled water is
then returned to the central plant’s trigeneration system which is
then reheated and
re-circulated once again to the buildings connected to the system. |
Economic Benefits of
District Energy Systems
* Reduces upfront capital costs because the equipment necessary to tie into DES
network costs less than stand-alone systems
(boilers, chillers, water heaters)
* Lower overall building operating, maintenance, and labor costs
* Passes along economies of scale when purchasing fuel
Environmental Benefits of District Energy Systems
* A central plant is more efficient than many small plants, reducing energy
consumption.
* Steam, hot water, and chilled water are 100 percent efficient "at the customer's
door," compared with 80 percent or lower efficiencies when burning natural gas
or fuel at individual buildings.
* Central plants employ stringent emission controls - more so than individual
buildings - providing air quality benefits.
* Reduces peak electric power demand for air conditioning
Convenience of District Energy Systems
* Removes combustion equipment from buildings, saving space in the buildings
for other uses and removing a real source of possible indoor air quality
contamination.
* Eliminates need for boilers and chillers resulting in less maintenance,
monitoring and equipment permitting.
* Energy professionals at central plants operate around the clock and have
backup systems available, with reliability rates near 99.9 percent.
* Building operators can manage and control their own indoor environments
because district energy is available whenever heating or cooling is needed (i.e.
- the air conditioning can be turned on for an unseasonably warm January
day).
For more
information on District Energy Systems, call us at: 832-758-0027
* Some of the information courtesy of the International District Energy
Association and the Department of Energy
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