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CHP for Businesses: Industrial Fasilities

Harbec Plastics: 750kW CHP Application.

Harbec Plastics, founded by Bob Bechtold in 1977, is a custom-injection molder that services customers from a wide range of industries including original equipment manufacturers in the automotive, medical, office products and sporting goods sectors. Harbec still had to address its core problem of replacing unreliable and expensive grid power with a reliable, high-quality and low emission source. Harbec decided to install a hybrid wind/CHP system in order to satisfy their main objectives of obtaining a primary source of power for the plant that had extremely low emissions, was energy efficient and economically feasible. For backup purposes, they kept their grid hookup...