Oregon State University’s new Energy Center is a 6.5 MW facility that will generate nearly half of the campus’s electricity on site. It went online in June 2010 and is the first platinum-rated (highest) power facility in the nation. It will also serve as an educational center for its students.
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Simpson Tacoma Kraft Co., one of Washington’s oldest continuously operating pulp and paper mills, began operation of their 55 MW biomass cogeneration plant in 2009. The renewable power is sold through Iberdrola Renewables to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD). The plant produces enough renewable energy to power 38,000 homes a year. Iberdrola Renewables is the world’s leading provider of wind power.
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With a shift in forest management priorities, this Oregon lumber mill was forced to downsize and focus more on high quality, low production specialty items. Seeking to dry more lumber, they needed greater boiler capacity to heat more dry kilns. This led to installation of a 1.5 MW cogeneration facility. Government incentives made the project feasible.
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Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is... generating electricity right near where it will be used, and then recycling the thermal energy for heating or cooling. It's very efficient, it already supplies 10% of our nation's energy, and it can and should supply more.
District Energy is... CHP, heating, and/or cooling for 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 pipeline compressor station is already emitting, and turning it into clean and renewable electricity or recycled thermal energy.
All of these are... RECYCLED ENERGY - a better solution for our country's energy supply, economy, and environment.