Intermountain Clean Energy Center
The U.S. DOE Intermountain Clean Energy Application
Center aims to increase adoption of clean and efficient
combined heat and power (CHP), waste heat recovery, and
district energy in the states of Arizona, Colorado, New
Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming.
- Combined Heat and Power (CHP) refers to
generating electricity at or near the place where it
is used, and then "recycling" the waste heat and
using it for space heating, water heating, process
steam for industrial steam loads, humidity control,
air conditioning, water cooling, product drying, or
for nearly any other thermal energy need. The end
result is significantly more efficient than
generating cooling, heating, and power separately,
and results in far fewer climate change emissions.
- Waste Heat Recovery captures thermal energy
normally wasted from industrial processes or
compressor stations, and turns it into electricity,
thus using no additional fuel and creating no
additional emissions.
- District Energy involves one of the above
options but on a community or campus scale.
These types of clean energy already provide nine
percent of our nation's electricity needs, but much of
the potential remains untapped. We invite you to explore
how CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy can
benefit our region's businesses and communities, and how
the U.S. DOE Intermountain Clean Energy Application
Center can help with technical assistance, project
support, education, policy reform, grant information,
and more.
SWEEP has partnered in running the center on behalf
of DOE since 2003. Visit SWEEP's Intermountain Clean
Energy Center website at
www.intermountaincleanenergy.org. |
