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What FERC Order 2222-A Means for Microgrids and Energy Democracy
Microgrid Knowledge
Apr 19, 2021
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Aggreko spearheads 43 MW CHP facility: Upgrade helps curb carbon emissions
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Apr 19, 2021
The complete solution comprised a total of total 43 MW of power: 21 MW gas generation, with a further 20 MW of thermal energy derived from the plant’s operations, supported by an additional 2MW battery capacity. The system has the potential to cut carbon emissions by up to 45% by capturing and using the plant’s exhaust gas and gas engine jacket water to generate further thermal energy.
Aggreko deployed a fully flexible system that allows for all or none of the heat to be recovered, therefore is suited to meet the required mix of thermal and electrical energy throughout seasonal changes and demand spikes. Energy stability across the site is ensured through the integration of battery units, with 2 MW of lithium-ion storage supporting the 14 gas generators. Aggreko and CET’s contract provides flexible terms to cater to the plant’s variable demand, with Aggreko’s rental solution also avoiding the need for CAPEX investment across the four-year contract.
The project, working to deliver efficiency increases for the plant while decreasing CO2 emissions by up to 45%, aligns with Aggreko’s wider net-zero aims and work to assist customers in their energy transitions. The company is committed to a 50% reduction in fossil diesel fuels and local air quality emissions by 2030, as well as achieving net-zero in its own operations by the same year. By 2050, Aggreko will also be a net-zero business across all of the services it provides.
The solution will help to increase efficiency and stability at the plant, a key provider of hot water and electricity for the district heating scheme and grid at the regional capital Arad City, for the next four years.
Aggreko’s skilled team of engineers had to contend with the challenges of sustaining the constant power output and demands of the plant whilst reducing carbon emissions; and simultaneously complying with stringent European Entso-E guidelines on grid compliance. The answer to the challenge was an innovative hybrid thermal and electrical cogeneration system, combining gas generators with batteries to provide important low emission ancillary services.
The power plant, operated by CET Arad, has been the main source of energy and heat for nearby Arad city for almost 50 years. It was originally built to provide heat and electricity in the 1970s, and has since developed its offer, with a fall in demand for heat meaning it now works primarily to provide electricity for the Ancillary Services market.
This project is one of a number of CHP solutions Aggreko has provided to clients to support a diverse range of requirements, including thermal power plants, mining operations, pharmaceutical companies and manufacturing production lines. Aggreko can deliver CHP solutions for both short duration projects as well as providing longer-term support as part of its flexible, modular offer.
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Lawmakers in 20 States Introduce 69 Microgrid Bills
Microgrid Knowledge
Apr 9, 2021
The legislation comes as state lawmakers are increasingly taking steps to support grid modernization, including exploring the role that microgrids and new energy management technologies can play in updating the grid, according to an April 7 report on trending energy topics from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
In part, grid modernization efforts focus on energy resilience, driven by extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes and tornados, NCSL analysts said in the report.
While some states last year enacted laws supporting backup generation, “policymakers are also increasingly considering the role that microgrids can play in enhancing resiliency during grid outages while also providing services during normal grid conditions,” NCSL analysts said.
In a trend that is continuing, last year seven states enacted laws creating “commercial property assessed clean energy” programs, known as C-PACE, according to the report. The C-PACE financing structure allows owners of commercial and industrial properties to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy and resiliency upgrades, which can include energy storage, the analysts said.
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Marriage of CHP & Hydrogen: Sounds heavenly but expensive & uncertain
Power Engieering
Apr 9, 2021
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‘Green’ hydrogen price dropping faster than expected: BloombergNEF
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Apr 7, 2021
BNEF’s research contains some significant findings for hydrogen producers and consumers around the world, as well as coal and gas companies:
Green hydrogen can be cheaper than natural gas: ‘Green’ hydrogen from renewables should get cheaper than natural gas (on an energy-equivalent basis) by 2050 in 15 of the 28 markets modeled, assuming scale-up continues. These countries accounted for one-third of global GDP in 2019.
‘Blue’ hydrogen undercut by green: In all of the markets modeled, ‘green’ hydrogen should get cheaper than both ‘blue’ hydrogen (from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage - CCS) and even polluting ‘gray’ hydrogen from fossil fuels without CCS.
85% cost decline coming: The costs of producing ‘green’ hydrogen from renewable electricity should fall by up to 85% from today to 2050, leading to costs below $1/kg ($7.4/MMBtu) by 2050 in most modeled markets.
Cheaper solar behind the decline: The above costs are 13% lower than our previous 2030 forecast and 17% lower than our old 2050 forecast. Falling costs of solar PV are the key driver behind the reduction. We now think that PV electricity will be 40% cheaper in 2050 than what we had thought just two years ago, driven by more automatic manufacturing, less silicon and silver consumption, higher photovoltaic efficiency of solar cells, and greater yields using bifacial panels.
“Such low renewable hydrogen costs could completely rewrite the energy map,” said Martin Tengler, lead hydrogen analyst at BloombergNEF. “It shows that in future, at least 33% of the world economy could be powered by clean energy for not a cent more than it pays for fossil fuels. But the technology will require continued government support to get there - we are at the high part of the cost curve now, and policy-supported investment is needed to get to the low part.
“By 2030, it will make little economic sense to build ‘blue’ hydrogen production facilities in most countries, unless space constraints are an issue for renewables. Companies currently banking on producing hydrogen from fossil fuels with CCS will have at most ten years before they feel the pinch. Eventually, those assets will be undercut, like what is happening with coal in the power sector today.”
“On one hand the reduction in the forecast was surprising, on the other hand not. This is how it goes with clean energy. Every year it gets cheaper, faster than anyone expects. The key driver is the falling cost of solar PV electricity. We now think solar PV power will be 40% cheaper by 2050 than what we had thought just two years ago.”
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The Great American Reset Is Underway and Will Change Everything
Energy Central
Apr 6, 2021
It is the Great American Reset, where things will be irreversibly changed. It is a seminal reset that will shape the decades to come, just as the New Deal and World War II shoved the clock forward.
The reset is being driven in part by Covid-19, but in larger part by technology and the digitization of America. Technology is at the gates, no, through the gates, and it is beginning to upend the old in the way that the steam engine in its day began innovations that would change life completely.
Driving this overhaul of human endeavor will be the digitization of everything from the kitchen broom to the electric utilities and the delivery of their vital product. Knitting them together will be communications from 5G to exclusive private networks.
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals could speed and smooth the innovation revolution, facilitate the digital revolution, and make it fairer and more balanced. Biden’s plan will fix the legacy world of infrastructure: roads, bridges, canals, ports, airports, and railroads. It will beef up the movement of goods and services, supply chains and their security, even as those goods and services are changing profoundly.
But if Biden’s plan fails, the Great American Reset will still happen. It will just be less fair and more uneven -- as in not providing broadband quicky to all.
Technology has an imperative, and there is so much technology coming to market that the market will embrace it, nonetheless.
Think driverless cars, but also think telemedicine, carbon capture and utilization, aerial taxis, drone deliveries, and 3D-printed body parts. Add new materials like graphene and nanomanufacturing, and an awesome future awaits.
We have seen just the tip of digitization and have been reminded of how pervasive it is by the current chip shortage, which is slowing automobile production lines and thousands of manufactures. But you might say, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” The future belongs to chips and sensors: small soldiers in mighty armies.
Accompanying digitization is electrification. Our cars, trucks, trains and even aircraft and ships are headed that way. Better storage is the one frontier that must be conquered before the army of change pours through the breach in a great reshaping of everything.
Central to the future -- to the smart city, the smart railroad, the smart highway, and the smart airport -- is the electric supply.
The whole reset future of digitization and sensor-facilitated mobility depends on electricity -- and not just availability of electricity going forward, but also resilience of supply. It also needs to be carbon-free and have low environmental impact.
An overhaul of the electric industry’s infrastructure, increasing its resilience, is an imperative underpinning the reset.
The Texas blackouts were a brutal wake-up call. Job one is look into hardening the entire electric supply system from informational technology to operational technology, from storm resistance to solar flare resistance (see Carrington Event), from catastrophic physical failure to failure induced by hostile players.
The electric grid needs survivability, but so do the data flows which will dominate the virtual utility of the future. It also needs a failsafe ability to isolate trouble in nanoseconds and, essentially, break itself into less vulnerable, defensive mini grids.
Securing the grid is akin to national security. Indeed, it is national security.
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U.S gas consumption expected to fall 0.4% in 2021
Compressor Magazine
Apr 6, 2021
The EIA said it expected the share of electric power generated from natural gas in the U.S. will average 36% in 2021 and 35% in 2022, down from 39% in 2020.
Despite the expected decline in demand for gas from power producers, the agency said that the use of gas among residential and commercial consumers in 2021 will increase by 1.1 Bcf/d and 1.4 Bcf/d respectively. The increase in demand outside of the power sector is caused by expanding economic activity and colder temperatures.
Looking farther ahead, the agency said it expected U.S. gas consumption to average 82.1 Bcf/d in 2022.
Natural gas inventories in the U.S. ended March 2021 at nearly 1.8 Tcf, down 2% from the five-year average from 2016 through 2020. The U.S. market saw more inventories withdrawn from storage than average because of cold temperatures in February and low natural gas production.
Injections of gas into storage are expected to outpace the five-year average this season because of rising gas production and lower gas consumption for power generation. The agency predicted that gas inventories will end the 2021 injection season, usually around the end of October, at more than 3.7 Tcf, on par with the five-year average.
The EIA also forecast that dry gas production will average 91.4 Bcf/d in 2021, about the same as the 2020 average. It predicted that dry gas production will fall to a low of 90.8 Bcf/d in May before steadily increasing for the rest of the ye
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Biden $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes billions in spending on transmission, clean energy
Utility Dive
Apr 1, 2021
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How Microgrids Fare in the Biden Infrastructure Plan
Microgrid Knowledge
Apr 1, 2021
Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan calls for spending $2.3 trillion over eight years as well as extending clean energy tax credits and adding new ones.
“The American Jobs Plan will lead to a transformational progress in our effort to tackle climate change with American jobs and American ingenuity,” Biden said March 31 in Pittsburgh. “[It will] protect our community from billions of dollars of damage from historic superstorms, floods, wildfires, droughts year after year by making our infrastructure more secure and resilient.”
Money for microgrids in resilience spending?
In an area that could directly affect microgrid development, the plan would spend $50 billion to improve infrastructure resilience, including in communities vulnerable to climate-driven disasters, according to a summary of the plan that is short on details and doesn’t specifically mention microgrids.
Some of that funding would increase spending for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a grant source some towns and cities plan to use for microgrid development.
The BRIC program this year is offering $500 million in grants. The program’s annual funding varies depending on the number and severity of disasters each year.
Other programs that would see increased resilience-related funding under the infrastructure plan are the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program, new initiatives at the Department of Transportation and a tax credit to provide incentives to low- and middle-income families and to small businesses to invest in disaster resilience, according to the plan summary.
Plan offers new, extended tax credits
In an area that could affect microgrid components, Biden’s plan includes a 10-year extension of production and investment tax credits for renewable energy generation and fuel cells. The plan extends the tax credit to energy storage. It also creates a tax incentive for producing hydrogen using carbon-free electricity.
Extending the tax credits, which are being phased out, would provide a major boost to the already fast growing wind, solar and fuel cell sectors, Morgan Stanley analysts said April 1. It could also give customers and regulators greater confidence in long-term decisions that favor rapid growth in clean energy, they said.
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Project for Generating Green Hydrogen and Renewable Methanol Reaches Next Selection Stage for EU Funding
Chemical Engineering
Mar 31, 2021
The funding application states that Wacker wants to build a 20-MW electrolysis plant with Linde GmbH (Munich, Germany) to generate hydrogen from water using renewable electricity. Further, the project includes a synthesis plant for processing the green hydrogen into renewable methanol, using carbon dioxide from existing production processes. The synthesis plant’s expected capacity is 15,000 metric tons per year. Hydrogen and methanol are both key starting materials for chemical products such as silicones. Compared with current production methods, the new processes could cut CO2 emissions by around 80%.
In total, some €100 million is planned for the project, which is named RHYME (renewable hydrogen and methanol) Bavaria. Wacker has submitted funding applications for RHYME Bavaria to both the European Union and Germany’s Ministry for the Environment. The requested support is in the high double-digit millions. Through its Innovation Fund, the EU has a budget of €10 billion to support innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy- intensive industries until 2030.
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Renewable Microgrids: When they make sense and when they don't
Microgrid Knowledge
April 27 at 2pm ET
• What elements do you need to consider for a renewable microgrid to make sense?
• What are some considerations when a renewable microgrid may not make sense?
• Case study: Port of San Diego and the decision to install a renewable energy microgrid.
Attendees also will learn how to pair traditional and renewable solutions to improve emergency operations.
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Technical Conference to Discuss Electrification and the Grid of the Future
FERC
Apr 29, 2021. 10 - 5 pm ET
The purpose of this technical conference is to initiate a dialog between Commissioners and stakeholders on how to prepare for an increasingly electrified future.
The conference will be open for the public to attend electronically. Registration for the conference is not required and there is no fee for attendance. A supplemental notice will be issued prior to the conference with further details regarding the agenda and organization, and any changes to the date and/or time. Information will also be posted on the Calendar of Events on the Commission’s website, www.ferc.gov, prior to the event. The conference will be transcribed. Transcripts will be available for a fee from Ace Reporting, (202) 347-3700.
Commission conferences are accessible under section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For accessibility accommodations, please send an e-mail to [email protected], call toll-free (866) 208-3372 (voice) or (202) 208-8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208-2106 with the required accommodations.
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Improving City Resilience with LEED and CHP
UW CHP-TAP
April 29, 2021
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Improving City Resilience with LEED and CHP
U.S. DOE Technical Assistance Partnership
April 29, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET
CHP, or cogeneration, is an ideal way to reduce carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency and meet sustainability goals. CHP can also improve community resilience and keep critical infrastructure operational during energy emergencies and natural disasters. LEED for Cities encourages local governments to progress towards a more sustainable future by tracking their energy efficiency and sustainability performance. This session will cover market trends, technologies, and technical resources in addition to highlighting end-users can earn LEED points with CHP.
Speakers:
Jonathan Kraatz, Executive Director, USGBC Texas
Marina Badoian-Kriticos – Assistant Director, Upper-West CHP TAP
Deborah Nabaloga – Associate, Southcentral CHP TAP
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Microgrid 2021
Microgrid Knowledge
May 11 - June 3, 2021
Free to attend, the digital event features lively discussions and in-depth webinars, delivered by more than 50 energy leaders, who will be available to network and answer audience questions.
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Producing Low or Negative Carbon Fuels from Sustainable Biomass Resources
GTI
May 12, 2021, 11 to 11:30 am ET
Transformational technologies that produce low-carbon fuels from renewable resources are being demonstrated at facilities all around the world. This engaging webinar will present insight on near-market and other improved process technologies that can even enable carbon negative energy when combined with carbon sequestration.
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CHP eCatalog Packager Workshop
U.S. DOE
May 12, 2021, 1:00 to 2:30 pm ET
... This, by invitation Workshop, is designed to provide Packagers with a complete understanding of the DOE Packaged CHP Systems eCatalog including all the new features designed to provide the eCatalog user with all the necessary information to make an informed decision to fully investigate the benefits CHP can offer for their specific project.
Learn about new key features to easily expand your Package offerings in the eCatalog and how to use the News and Events page for technology development announcements, project awards and your webinars. Learn how the DOE is working to make the eCatalog even more user friendly and what the DOE is doing to promote use of the eCatalog in the marketplace. The eCatalog is also the place to understand how the CHP industry plans to decarbonize.
You are receiving this inbreAK>vitation on behalf of your company. If you cannot attend, please be sure to have someone represent your company at the workshop. If you are seeing this eCatalog Packager Workshop announcement and your company has not yet been invited, please reach out to [email protected] to understand the eCatalog’s Packager qualification requirements and how to join the webinar.
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1. Introduction to the new CHP eCatalog: News and Events, Benefits, Financing and Resource Pages
2. How to leverage News and Events page to showcase your webinars, project announcements, new products and technologies
3. New CHP Package
4. New direct drying and direct heating CHP Packages
5. New Package comparison feature
6. Existing Fuels: natural gas, digester gas, landfill gas propane and pipeline RNG
7. New 100% gaseous hydrogen fuel category
8. New hydrogen blend category for existing packages
9. Streamline your application process
10. New project installation process
11. Future Systems: steam turbines and ORCs
12. DOE and Customer Engagement Partner marketing and promotion of the eCatalog
13. Discussion and recommendations for the future
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Greening CHP - Meeting CO2 and Environmental Goals With CHP Technology
NECHPI
May 12, 2021, 10 am to 12 pm ET
Learn how CHP can meet a variety of crucial roles in a carbon-neutral future. Our panelists are at the forefront of hydrogen-fueled CHP, controlled environmental agriculture, brownfield redevelopment, food deserts, and social equity concerns.
Panelists:
Catherine Luthin, founder, CEO Luthin Associates. Founded in 1994, Luthin Associates provides a wide range of energy efficiency, procurement and generation strategies for large commercial/industrial customers including healthcare, education and real estate sectors. Catherine was featured speaker 2020 December AEE Member Webinar: “The Future of Green Hydrogen”. She brings years of experience in CHP along with recent innovative research on the topic of the Future of Green Hydrogen
Dr. Neil Mattson, Associate Professor, Cornell School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section. Dr. Mattson is a nationally recognized expert on Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA), Greenhouse Horticulture, and Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering. Under his direction, Cornell is leading a project conducting a deep exploration of the Viability of Indoor Agriculture. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mattson and collaborators are looking at the scalability of urban controlled environment agriculture, specifically high-tech plant production in greenhouses and vertical farms. Given the increased public interest in locally grown food, the project looks at the environmental and economic implications that this nascent industry could have on the New York metro area, as well as Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.
Linda Shaw, Esq., Founder and Partner Knauf Shaw, LLP. Linda Shaw is a noted environmental and energy law expert as well as one of the pre-eminent experts on Brownfields redevelopment opportunities. For NECHPI members Linda will bring a new and fresh perspective on CHP opportunities at Brownfield sites and in particular she will address a burgeoning interest in LOCALLY GROWN food, resilient food supplies, that can be facilitated with CHP systems.
Moderator:
Diane Molokotos, Senior Project Engineer Dalkia Aegis, EDF Group. Founded in 1985, Aegis Energy Services, Inc. is an innovative Combined Heat and Power (CHP) company based in Holyoke, Mass.
This exciting and cutting-edge panel is essential for CHP experts as well as those interested in new frontiers of energy, food resilience, locally grown food, and environmental justice and jobs concerns.
This is an event NOT TO BE MISSED!
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Join us for the Standby Rates Best Practices for CHP Webinar!
Great Plains Institute
May 14, 2021, 1 to 2 pm ET
The presenters for this webinar will be Jamie Scripps of Hunterston Consulting LLC and Carl Linvill of the Regulatory Assistance Project.
Building on previous research and its strong history of supporting CHP policy work in the Midwest, the Great Plains Institute (GPI) recognized that while best practices in standby rates had begun to emerge, work was needed to further define and test these emerging recommended practices with interested stakeholders such as regulators, potential CHP users, developers, technical experts, and utilities. In June 2020, GPI launched a survey and conducted follow-up interviews requesting feedback on best practices in standby rates for CHP. The new whitepaper presents the results of this research along with recommended best practices and suggestions for additional investigation and discussion.
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U.S. Department of Energy's next Better Buildings, Better Plants Summit
U.S. DOE
May 17, 2021
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NES-WES Announces sales and service Agreement for Ammongas and Biogasclean
NES-WES
Apr 19, 2021
NES-WES is now the exclusive sales and service provider for Ammongas and Biogasclean in the U.S. and Caribbean.
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Maryland Energy Administration Awards $3.3 Million for CHP Energy Efficiency and Resiliency Projects
Maryland Energy Administration
Mar 31, 2021
CHP systems combine technologies to efficiently reduce energy waste and offer cleaner, more resilient energy. The CHP grant is funded by the Strategic Energy Investment Fund.
“Powering Maryland’s clean energy future is an essential collaboration between the public and private sectors,” said Dr. Mary Beth Tung, MEA Director. “This round of new CHP awards builds on our previous successes and ensures that Maryland businesses and critical infrastructure are able to run more efficiently and provide services, even during a blackout.”
A total of $3.3 million in funding was available for FY21, and was divided between two cycles. A full list of all FY21 awardees can be found under the read more section below, and see spotlight grantees below:
Becton-Dickinson and Company is a medical technology company that earlier this year announced an antigen test that helps to detect the COVID-19 virus. Located in Cockeysville, the company will use their $650,000 award to enhance operation sustainability and diminish power outages. This new 2,000 kW CHP system will satisfy nearly half of annual electricity consumption needs, plus produce necessary hot water and steam. The system will also serve critical facility equipment during power outages, enabling production to continue at 50% capacity even in a blackout.
ITility, a Veteran-Owned Disabled Small Business specializing in a variety of services, including renewable energy system development, received a $120,000 award for an innovative project fueled by 100% clean and renewable energy derived by onsite-produced biogas. Partnering with Elceed Farm in Somerset County, ITility will design and install a 27 kW renewable natural gas (RNG) system. The RNG will be produced in an onsite anaerobic digester that utilizes the farm’s chicken manure, allowing for increased nutrient management that helps improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. The CHP system will provide the farm with approximately 75% of its annual electricity, and the thermal energy will be used to help the anaerobic digester optimally operate. This project could be replicated at farms across the state.
The Bethesda North Marriott & Conference Center, located in Rockville, requires continuous access to reliable, affordable electricity and heat energy in order to ensure the satisfaction of guests and attendees. To enhance the cost-effectiveness and resilience of their operations, the property received a $363,000 FY21 MEA CHP award for the installation of a 550 kW system. It will produce electricity to satisfy approximately 60% of annual consumption needs, and the heat output will be used to enhance the efficiency of hot water production.
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City will use their $108,000 award to reduce energy costs for low-to-moderate income residents at Douglass Home, a multifamily housing community in east Baltimore, with a 180 kW CHP system that will meet approximately 75% of the building’s annual electricity needs. The system is projected to operate at an exceptionally high efficiency of 81% and will reduce electricity bills for residents.
CHP is ideal for critical infrastructure facilities like hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, and critical manufacturers. CHP systems can also be implemented by businesses, multifamily housing facilities, and other industries where continuous access to reliable electricity and heat are needed. MEA’s CHP Resource Guide provides more details for those looking to upgrade.
For additional information, contact: Kaymie Owen, CMP 443-694-3651 | [email protected]
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Cummins supplies 20 MW PEM electrolyzer in Canada
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Jan 26, 2021
The Cummins electrolyzer system is installed at the Air Liquide hydrogen production facility in Bécancour, Quebec, Canada, and began commercial operation in late 2020. The Cummins PEM Electrolyzer can produce over 3000 tons of hydrogen annually using clean hydropower.
“Creating hydrogen technologies at scale is paramount to growing low-carbon solutions,” said Amy Davis, Cummins vice president and president of New Power, the company’s alternative power business. “We have successfully developed our technology from 1 MW to 5 MW, and now have the largest PEM electrolyzer in operation in the world. It will continue to take enterprises, governments, forward-thinking customers and utilities all working together to make alternative power a reality. Here we are seeing how green hydrogen can improve sustainability for industrial manufacturing and how the demand for decarbonized hydrogen solutions will grow.”
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M-Trigen is a new recognized Packager in the eCatalog
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Jan 12, 2021
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INNIO Jenbacher is a new Recognized Packager in the eCatalog
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Jan 8, 2021
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Solar Turbines is a new recognized packager in the eCatalog
eCatalog
Jan 4, 2021
Solar’s systems operate in the production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil, and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar Turbines is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team
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Rolls-Royce Unveils Hydrogen-Ready Gas Engine
Power Engineering International
Dec 11, 2020
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World’s first 1MW large-scale gas engine begins hydrogen field test
Power Engineering International
Dec 2, 2020
This 1MW pilot plant from INNIO Jenbacher represents the world’s first large-scale gas engine in the 1MW range that can be operated either with 100% natural gas or with variable hydrogen-natural gas mixtures up to 100% hydrogen.
The testing program will evaluate how the plant operates with different hydrogen-natural gas mixtures and is expected to provide important insights for the future operation of similar plants. “By field-testing this INNIO CHP plant with up to 100% hydrogen, we are demonstrating that a greener, more reliable, more flexible and future-orientated energy supply for Hamburg is technically feasible,” explained Thomas Baade, technical director of HanseWerk Natur GmbH.
The converted CHP plant provides 30 residential buildings, a sports center, a daycare center, and the Othmarschen Park leisure complex with a reliable supply of local heating that equates to 13,000MWh every year. The electricity generated is fed to electric vehicle charging points in Othmarschen’s multi-level parking garage, as well as to the local power grid.
“Our joint project with HanseWerk Natur is a key milestone on the path toward climate neutrality since green hydrogen is an important part of the solution. A particularly attractive aspect of our gas engine technology is that existing natural gas engines can also be converted to run on hydrogen. This offers operators security of investment, with the added benefit that the existing infrastructure can not only be utilized in the longer term but also deployed in a way that is environmentally sound,” said Carlos Lange, president and CEO of INNIO.
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TURBINES POWER BY SUNLIGHT? NOT JUST HOT AIR, ACCORDING TO CAPSTONE
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Oct 10, 2020
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What FERC Order 2222-A Means for Microgrids and Energy Democracy
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Apr 19, 2021
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Aggreko spearheads 43 MW CHP facility: Upgrade helps curb carbon emissions
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Apr 19, 2021
The complete solution comprised a total of total 43 MW of power: 21 MW gas generation, with a further 20 MW of thermal energy derived from the plant’s operations, supported by an additional 2MW battery capacity. The system has the potential to cut carbon emissions by up to 45% by capturing and using the plant’s exhaust gas and gas engine jacket water to generate further thermal energy.
Aggreko deployed a fully flexible system that allows for all or none of the heat to be recovered, therefore is suited to meet the required mix of thermal and electrical energy throughout seasonal changes and demand spikes. Energy stability across the site is ensured through the integration of battery units, with 2 MW of lithium-ion storage supporting the 14 gas generators. Aggreko and CET’s contract provides flexible terms to cater to the plant’s variable demand, with Aggreko’s rental solution also avoiding the need for CAPEX investment across the four-year contract.
The project, working to deliver efficiency increases for the plant while decreasing CO2 emissions by up to 45%, aligns with Aggreko’s wider net-zero aims and work to assist customers in their energy transitions. The company is committed to a 50% reduction in fossil diesel fuels and local air quality emissions by 2030, as well as achieving net-zero in its own operations by the same year. By 2050, Aggreko will also be a net-zero business across all of the services it provides.
The solution will help to increase efficiency and stability at the plant, a key provider of hot water and electricity for the district heating scheme and grid at the regional capital Arad City, for the next four years.
Aggreko’s skilled team of engineers had to contend with the challenges of sustaining the constant power output and demands of the plant whilst reducing carbon emissions; and simultaneously complying with stringent European Entso-E guidelines on grid compliance. The answer to the challenge was an innovative hybrid thermal and electrical cogeneration system, combining gas generators with batteries to provide important low emission ancillary services.
The power plant, operated by CET Arad, has been the main source of energy and heat for nearby Arad city for almost 50 years. It was originally built to provide heat and electricity in the 1970s, and has since developed its offer, with a fall in demand for heat meaning it now works primarily to provide electricity for the Ancillary Services market.
This project is one of a number of CHP solutions Aggreko has provided to clients to support a diverse range of requirements, including thermal power plants, mining operations, pharmaceutical companies and manufacturing production lines. Aggreko can deliver CHP solutions for both short duration projects as well as providing longer-term support as part of its flexible, modular offer.
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Lawmakers in 20 States Introduce 69 Microgrid Bills
Microgrid Knowledge
Apr 9, 2021
The legislation comes as state lawmakers are increasingly taking steps to support grid modernization, including exploring the role that microgrids and new energy management technologies can play in updating the grid, according to an April 7 report on trending energy topics from the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL).
In part, grid modernization efforts focus on energy resilience, driven by extreme weather events like wildfires, hurricanes and tornados, NCSL analysts said in the report.
While some states last year enacted laws supporting backup generation, “policymakers are also increasingly considering the role that microgrids can play in enhancing resiliency during grid outages while also providing services during normal grid conditions,” NCSL analysts said.
In a trend that is continuing, last year seven states enacted laws creating “commercial property assessed clean energy” programs, known as C-PACE, according to the report. The C-PACE financing structure allows owners of commercial and industrial properties to obtain low-cost, long-term financing for energy efficiency, renewable energy and resiliency upgrades, which can include energy storage, the analysts said.
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Marriage of CHP & Hydrogen: Sounds heavenly but expensive & uncertain
Power Engieering
Apr 9, 2021
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‘Green’ hydrogen price dropping faster than expected: BloombergNEF
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Apr 7, 2021
BNEF’s research contains some significant findings for hydrogen producers and consumers around the world, as well as coal and gas companies:
Green hydrogen can be cheaper than natural gas: ‘Green’ hydrogen from renewables should get cheaper than natural gas (on an energy-equivalent basis) by 2050 in 15 of the 28 markets modeled, assuming scale-up continues. These countries accounted for one-third of global GDP in 2019.
‘Blue’ hydrogen undercut by green: In all of the markets modeled, ‘green’ hydrogen should get cheaper than both ‘blue’ hydrogen (from fossil fuels with carbon capture and storage - CCS) and even polluting ‘gray’ hydrogen from fossil fuels without CCS.
85% cost decline coming: The costs of producing ‘green’ hydrogen from renewable electricity should fall by up to 85% from today to 2050, leading to costs below $1/kg ($7.4/MMBtu) by 2050 in most modeled markets.
Cheaper solar behind the decline: The above costs are 13% lower than our previous 2030 forecast and 17% lower than our old 2050 forecast. Falling costs of solar PV are the key driver behind the reduction. We now think that PV electricity will be 40% cheaper in 2050 than what we had thought just two years ago, driven by more automatic manufacturing, less silicon and silver consumption, higher photovoltaic efficiency of solar cells, and greater yields using bifacial panels.
“Such low renewable hydrogen costs could completely rewrite the energy map,” said Martin Tengler, lead hydrogen analyst at BloombergNEF. “It shows that in future, at least 33% of the world economy could be powered by clean energy for not a cent more than it pays for fossil fuels. But the technology will require continued government support to get there - we are at the high part of the cost curve now, and policy-supported investment is needed to get to the low part.
“By 2030, it will make little economic sense to build ‘blue’ hydrogen production facilities in most countries, unless space constraints are an issue for renewables. Companies currently banking on producing hydrogen from fossil fuels with CCS will have at most ten years before they feel the pinch. Eventually, those assets will be undercut, like what is happening with coal in the power sector today.”
“On one hand the reduction in the forecast was surprising, on the other hand not. This is how it goes with clean energy. Every year it gets cheaper, faster than anyone expects. The key driver is the falling cost of solar PV electricity. We now think solar PV power will be 40% cheaper by 2050 than what we had thought just two years ago.”
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The Great American Reset Is Underway and Will Change Everything
Energy Central
Apr 6, 2021
It is the Great American Reset, where things will be irreversibly changed. It is a seminal reset that will shape the decades to come, just as the New Deal and World War II shoved the clock forward.
The reset is being driven in part by Covid-19, but in larger part by technology and the digitization of America. Technology is at the gates, no, through the gates, and it is beginning to upend the old in the way that the steam engine in its day began innovations that would change life completely.
Driving this overhaul of human endeavor will be the digitization of everything from the kitchen broom to the electric utilities and the delivery of their vital product. Knitting them together will be communications from 5G to exclusive private networks.
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposals could speed and smooth the innovation revolution, facilitate the digital revolution, and make it fairer and more balanced. Biden’s plan will fix the legacy world of infrastructure: roads, bridges, canals, ports, airports, and railroads. It will beef up the movement of goods and services, supply chains and their security, even as those goods and services are changing profoundly.
But if Biden’s plan fails, the Great American Reset will still happen. It will just be less fair and more uneven -- as in not providing broadband quicky to all.
Technology has an imperative, and there is so much technology coming to market that the market will embrace it, nonetheless.
Think driverless cars, but also think telemedicine, carbon capture and utilization, aerial taxis, drone deliveries, and 3D-printed body parts. Add new materials like graphene and nanomanufacturing, and an awesome future awaits.
We have seen just the tip of digitization and have been reminded of how pervasive it is by the current chip shortage, which is slowing automobile production lines and thousands of manufactures. But you might say, “You ain’t seen nothing yet.” The future belongs to chips and sensors: small soldiers in mighty armies.
Accompanying digitization is electrification. Our cars, trucks, trains and even aircraft and ships are headed that way. Better storage is the one frontier that must be conquered before the army of change pours through the breach in a great reshaping of everything.
Central to the future -- to the smart city, the smart railroad, the smart highway, and the smart airport -- is the electric supply.
The whole reset future of digitization and sensor-facilitated mobility depends on electricity -- and not just availability of electricity going forward, but also resilience of supply. It also needs to be carbon-free and have low environmental impact.
An overhaul of the electric industry’s infrastructure, increasing its resilience, is an imperative underpinning the reset.
The Texas blackouts were a brutal wake-up call. Job one is look into hardening the entire electric supply system from informational technology to operational technology, from storm resistance to solar flare resistance (see Carrington Event), from catastrophic physical failure to failure induced by hostile players.
The electric grid needs survivability, but so do the data flows which will dominate the virtual utility of the future. It also needs a failsafe ability to isolate trouble in nanoseconds and, essentially, break itself into less vulnerable, defensive mini grids.
Securing the grid is akin to national security. Indeed, it is national security.
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U.S gas consumption expected to fall 0.4% in 2021
Compressor Magazine
Apr 6, 2021
The EIA said it expected the share of electric power generated from natural gas in the U.S. will average 36% in 2021 and 35% in 2022, down from 39% in 2020.
Despite the expected decline in demand for gas from power producers, the agency said that the use of gas among residential and commercial consumers in 2021 will increase by 1.1 Bcf/d and 1.4 Bcf/d respectively. The increase in demand outside of the power sector is caused by expanding economic activity and colder temperatures.
Looking farther ahead, the agency said it expected U.S. gas consumption to average 82.1 Bcf/d in 2022.
Natural gas inventories in the U.S. ended March 2021 at nearly 1.8 Tcf, down 2% from the five-year average from 2016 through 2020. The U.S. market saw more inventories withdrawn from storage than average because of cold temperatures in February and low natural gas production.
Injections of gas into storage are expected to outpace the five-year average this season because of rising gas production and lower gas consumption for power generation. The agency predicted that gas inventories will end the 2021 injection season, usually around the end of October, at more than 3.7 Tcf, on par with the five-year average.
The EIA also forecast that dry gas production will average 91.4 Bcf/d in 2021, about the same as the 2020 average. It predicted that dry gas production will fall to a low of 90.8 Bcf/d in May before steadily increasing for the rest of the ye
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Biden $2 trillion infrastructure proposal includes billions in spending on transmission, clean energy
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Apr 1, 2021
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How Microgrids Fare in the Biden Infrastructure Plan
Microgrid Knowledge
Apr 1, 2021
Biden’s proposed infrastructure plan calls for spending $2.3 trillion over eight years as well as extending clean energy tax credits and adding new ones.
“The American Jobs Plan will lead to a transformational progress in our effort to tackle climate change with American jobs and American ingenuity,” Biden said March 31 in Pittsburgh. “[It will] protect our community from billions of dollars of damage from historic superstorms, floods, wildfires, droughts year after year by making our infrastructure more secure and resilient.”
Money for microgrids in resilience spending?
In an area that could directly affect microgrid development, the plan would spend $50 billion to improve infrastructure resilience, including in communities vulnerable to climate-driven disasters, according to a summary of the plan that is short on details and doesn’t specifically mention microgrids.
Some of that funding would increase spending for the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program, a grant source some towns and cities plan to use for microgrid development.
The BRIC program this year is offering $500 million in grants. The program’s annual funding varies depending on the number and severity of disasters each year.
Other programs that would see increased resilience-related funding under the infrastructure plan are the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Community Development Block Grant program, new initiatives at the Department of Transportation and a tax credit to provide incentives to low- and middle-income families and to small businesses to invest in disaster resilience, according to the plan summary.
Plan offers new, extended tax credits
In an area that could affect microgrid components, Biden’s plan includes a 10-year extension of production and investment tax credits for renewable energy generation and fuel cells. The plan extends the tax credit to energy storage. It also creates a tax incentive for producing hydrogen using carbon-free electricity.
Extending the tax credits, which are being phased out, would provide a major boost to the already fast growing wind, solar and fuel cell sectors, Morgan Stanley analysts said April 1. It could also give customers and regulators greater confidence in long-term decisions that favor rapid growth in clean energy, they said.
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Project for Generating Green Hydrogen and Renewable Methanol Reaches Next Selection Stage for EU Funding
Chemical Engineering
Mar 31, 2021
The funding application states that Wacker wants to build a 20-MW electrolysis plant with Linde GmbH (Munich, Germany) to generate hydrogen from water using renewable electricity. Further, the project includes a synthesis plant for processing the green hydrogen into renewable methanol, using carbon dioxide from existing production processes. The synthesis plant’s expected capacity is 15,000 metric tons per year. Hydrogen and methanol are both key starting materials for chemical products such as silicones. Compared with current production methods, the new processes could cut CO2 emissions by around 80%.
In total, some €100 million is planned for the project, which is named RHYME (renewable hydrogen and methanol) Bavaria. Wacker has submitted funding applications for RHYME Bavaria to both the European Union and Germany’s Ministry for the Environment. The requested support is in the high double-digit millions. Through its Innovation Fund, the EU has a budget of €10 billion to support innovative low-carbon technologies and processes in energy- intensive industries until 2030.
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April 29, 2021
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Improving City Resilience with LEED and CHP
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April 29, 2021, 2:00 to 3:00 pm ET
CHP, or cogeneration, is an ideal way to reduce carbon emissions, improve energy efficiency and meet sustainability goals. CHP can also improve community resilience and keep critical infrastructure operational during energy emergencies and natural disasters. LEED for Cities encourages local governments to progress towards a more sustainable future by tracking their energy efficiency and sustainability performance. This session will cover market trends, technologies, and technical resources in addition to highlighting end-users can earn LEED points with CHP.
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May 12, 2021, 11 to 11:30 am ET
Transformational technologies that produce low-carbon fuels from renewable resources are being demonstrated at facilities all around the world. This engaging webinar will present insight on near-market and other improved process technologies that can even enable carbon negative energy when combined with carbon sequestration.
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... This, by invitation Workshop, is designed to provide Packagers with a complete understanding of the DOE Packaged CHP Systems eCatalog including all the new features designed to provide the eCatalog user with all the necessary information to make an informed decision to fully investigate the benefits CHP can offer for their specific project.
Learn about new key features to easily expand your Package offerings in the eCatalog and how to use the News and Events page for technology development announcements, project awards and your webinars. Learn how the DOE is working to make the eCatalog even more user friendly and what the DOE is doing to promote use of the eCatalog in the marketplace. The eCatalog is also the place to understand how the CHP industry plans to decarbonize.
You are receiving this inbreAK>vitation on behalf of your company. If you cannot attend, please be sure to have someone represent your company at the workshop. If you are seeing this eCatalog Packager Workshop announcement and your company has not yet been invited, please reach out to [email protected] to understand the eCatalog’s Packager qualification requirements and how to join the webinar.
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Greening CHP - Meeting CO2 and Environmental Goals With CHP Technology
NECHPI
May 12, 2021, 10 am to 12 pm ET
Learn how CHP can meet a variety of crucial roles in a carbon-neutral future. Our panelists are at the forefront of hydrogen-fueled CHP, controlled environmental agriculture, brownfield redevelopment, food deserts, and social equity concerns.
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Catherine Luthin, founder, CEO Luthin Associates. Founded in 1994, Luthin Associates provides a wide range of energy efficiency, procurement and generation strategies for large commercial/industrial customers including healthcare, education and real estate sectors. Catherine was featured speaker 2020 December AEE Member Webinar: “The Future of Green Hydrogen”. She brings years of experience in CHP along with recent innovative research on the topic of the Future of Green Hydrogen
Dr. Neil Mattson, Associate Professor, Cornell School of Integrative Plant Science Horticulture Section. Dr. Mattson is a nationally recognized expert on Controlled Environmental Agriculture (CEA), Greenhouse Horticulture, and Greenhouse Lighting and Systems Engineering. Under his direction, Cornell is leading a project conducting a deep exploration of the Viability of Indoor Agriculture. Funded by the National Science Foundation, Mattson and collaborators are looking at the scalability of urban controlled environment agriculture, specifically high-tech plant production in greenhouses and vertical farms. Given the increased public interest in locally grown food, the project looks at the environmental and economic implications that this nascent industry could have on the New York metro area, as well as Chicago, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.
Linda Shaw, Esq., Founder and Partner Knauf Shaw, LLP. Linda Shaw is a noted environmental and energy law expert as well as one of the pre-eminent experts on Brownfields redevelopment opportunities. For NECHPI members Linda will bring a new and fresh perspective on CHP opportunities at Brownfield sites and in particular she will address a burgeoning interest in LOCALLY GROWN food, resilient food supplies, that can be facilitated with CHP systems.
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Diane Molokotos, Senior Project Engineer Dalkia Aegis, EDF Group. Founded in 1985, Aegis Energy Services, Inc. is an innovative Combined Heat and Power (CHP) company based in Holyoke, Mass.
This exciting and cutting-edge panel is essential for CHP experts as well as those interested in new frontiers of energy, food resilience, locally grown food, and environmental justice and jobs concerns.
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May 14, 2021, 1 to 2 pm ET
The presenters for this webinar will be Jamie Scripps of Hunterston Consulting LLC and Carl Linvill of the Regulatory Assistance Project.
Building on previous research and its strong history of supporting CHP policy work in the Midwest, the Great Plains Institute (GPI) recognized that while best practices in standby rates had begun to emerge, work was needed to further define and test these emerging recommended practices with interested stakeholders such as regulators, potential CHP users, developers, technical experts, and utilities. In June 2020, GPI launched a survey and conducted follow-up interviews requesting feedback on best practices in standby rates for CHP. The new whitepaper presents the results of this research along with recommended best practices and suggestions for additional investigation and discussion.
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NES-WES Announces sales and service Agreement for Ammongas and Biogasclean
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Apr 19, 2021
NES-WES is now the exclusive sales and service provider for Ammongas and Biogasclean in the U.S. and Caribbean.
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Maryland Energy Administration Awards $3.3 Million for CHP Energy Efficiency and Resiliency Projects
Maryland Energy Administration
Mar 31, 2021
CHP systems combine technologies to efficiently reduce energy waste and offer cleaner, more resilient energy. The CHP grant is funded by the Strategic Energy Investment Fund.
“Powering Maryland’s clean energy future is an essential collaboration between the public and private sectors,” said Dr. Mary Beth Tung, MEA Director. “This round of new CHP awards builds on our previous successes and ensures that Maryland businesses and critical infrastructure are able to run more efficiently and provide services, even during a blackout.”
A total of $3.3 million in funding was available for FY21, and was divided between two cycles. A full list of all FY21 awardees can be found under the read more section below, and see spotlight grantees below:
Becton-Dickinson and Company is a medical technology company that earlier this year announced an antigen test that helps to detect the COVID-19 virus. Located in Cockeysville, the company will use their $650,000 award to enhance operation sustainability and diminish power outages. This new 2,000 kW CHP system will satisfy nearly half of annual electricity consumption needs, plus produce necessary hot water and steam. The system will also serve critical facility equipment during power outages, enabling production to continue at 50% capacity even in a blackout.
ITility, a Veteran-Owned Disabled Small Business specializing in a variety of services, including renewable energy system development, received a $120,000 award for an innovative project fueled by 100% clean and renewable energy derived by onsite-produced biogas. Partnering with Elceed Farm in Somerset County, ITility will design and install a 27 kW renewable natural gas (RNG) system. The RNG will be produced in an onsite anaerobic digester that utilizes the farm’s chicken manure, allowing for increased nutrient management that helps improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay. The CHP system will provide the farm with approximately 75% of its annual electricity, and the thermal energy will be used to help the anaerobic digester optimally operate. This project could be replicated at farms across the state.
The Bethesda North Marriott & Conference Center, located in Rockville, requires continuous access to reliable, affordable electricity and heat energy in order to ensure the satisfaction of guests and attendees. To enhance the cost-effectiveness and resilience of their operations, the property received a $363,000 FY21 MEA CHP award for the installation of a 550 kW system. It will produce electricity to satisfy approximately 60% of annual consumption needs, and the heat output will be used to enhance the efficiency of hot water production.
The Housing Authority of Baltimore City will use their $108,000 award to reduce energy costs for low-to-moderate income residents at Douglass Home, a multifamily housing community in east Baltimore, with a 180 kW CHP system that will meet approximately 75% of the building’s annual electricity needs. The system is projected to operate at an exceptionally high efficiency of 81% and will reduce electricity bills for residents.
CHP is ideal for critical infrastructure facilities like hospitals, wastewater treatment plants, and critical manufacturers. CHP systems can also be implemented by businesses, multifamily housing facilities, and other industries where continuous access to reliable electricity and heat are needed. MEA’s CHP Resource Guide provides more details for those looking to upgrade.
For additional information, contact: Kaymie Owen, CMP 443-694-3651 | [email protected]
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Cummins supplies 20 MW PEM electrolyzer in Canada
DIESEL & GAS TURBINE WORLDWIDE
Jan 26, 2021
The Cummins electrolyzer system is installed at the Air Liquide hydrogen production facility in Bécancour, Quebec, Canada, and began commercial operation in late 2020. The Cummins PEM Electrolyzer can produce over 3000 tons of hydrogen annually using clean hydropower.
“Creating hydrogen technologies at scale is paramount to growing low-carbon solutions,” said Amy Davis, Cummins vice president and president of New Power, the company’s alternative power business. “We have successfully developed our technology from 1 MW to 5 MW, and now have the largest PEM electrolyzer in operation in the world. It will continue to take enterprises, governments, forward-thinking customers and utilities all working together to make alternative power a reality. Here we are seeing how green hydrogen can improve sustainability for industrial manufacturing and how the demand for decarbonized hydrogen solutions will grow.”
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M-Trigen is a new recognized Packager in the eCatalog
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INNIO Jenbacher is a new Recognized Packager in the eCatalog
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Solar Turbines is a new recognized packager in the eCatalog
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Jan 4, 2021
Solar’s systems operate in the production, processing and pipeline transmission of natural gas and crude oil, and generation of electricity and thermal energy for processing applications, such as manufacturing chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and food products.
Solar Turbines is comprised of a dedicated and multi-talented workforce of more than 8,000 employees with decades of experience working as a global team
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Rolls-Royce Unveils Hydrogen-Ready Gas Engine
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Dec 11, 2020
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World’s first 1MW large-scale gas engine begins hydrogen field test
Power Engineering International
Dec 2, 2020
This 1MW pilot plant from INNIO Jenbacher represents the world’s first large-scale gas engine in the 1MW range that can be operated either with 100% natural gas or with variable hydrogen-natural gas mixtures up to 100% hydrogen.
The testing program will evaluate how the plant operates with different hydrogen-natural gas mixtures and is expected to provide important insights for the future operation of similar plants. “By field-testing this INNIO CHP plant with up to 100% hydrogen, we are demonstrating that a greener, more reliable, more flexible and future-orientated energy supply for Hamburg is technically feasible,” explained Thomas Baade, technical director of HanseWerk Natur GmbH.
The converted CHP plant provides 30 residential buildings, a sports center, a daycare center, and the Othmarschen Park leisure complex with a reliable supply of local heating that equates to 13,000MWh every year. The electricity generated is fed to electric vehicle charging points in Othmarschen’s multi-level parking garage, as well as to the local power grid.
“Our joint project with HanseWerk Natur is a key milestone on the path toward climate neutrality since green hydrogen is an important part of the solution. A particularly attractive aspect of our gas engine technology is that existing natural gas engines can also be converted to run on hydrogen. This offers operators security of investment, with the added benefit that the existing infrastructure can not only be utilized in the longer term but also deployed in a way that is environmentally sound,” said Carlos Lange, president and CEO of INNIO.
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