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CHP Installations and Success Stories

USDOE-supported case studies can be found at this web site.

Additional case studies and fact sheets can be found at this web site.

Northeast CHP case studies are listed bellow:

Central Connecticut State University: 2.5 MW CHP Application. The energy plant at Central Connecticut State University has three dual-fuel Nebraska boilers, which generate steam at 135 psig, the pressure needed by the absorption chiller. Steam is reduced to 65 p.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Colby College: 600 kW CHP Application. Colby, a liberal arts college in Maine, was chartered in 1813, making it the 12th-oldest independent liberal arts college in the nation. In 1998, an ice storm that knocked out power at several other M.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Williams College: 3 MW CHP Application. Williams College, located in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, was established in 1793 and now has 2,000 students. The college’s central heating plant operates throughout the school year to pro.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: 280 kW CHP Application. Coffee roasting is an energy intensive process in which reliable power is critical. The coffee beans are brought to a very high temperature approaching flash point, and if power is lost during that p.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

South Oaks Hospital: 1.3 MW CHP Application. South Oaks Hospital on Long Island installed a combined heat and power system in 1990 to reduce energy costs. The system had a simple payback of less than five years, and continues to generate almos.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

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, med.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Notre Dame Long Term Care & Assisted Living Centers. The long term care facility and assisted living facility each have a 75 kW Tecogen engine. As well as domestic hot water, thermal output from the engines is used for the forced hot water baseboard h.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Bristol-Myers Squibb: 4.7 MW CHP Application. A reliable power supply is critical to the Bristol-Myers Squibb facility in Wallingford, Connecticut. The pharmaceutical research and development conducted in this facility requires a consistent envir.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Waldbaum’s Supermarket: 60kW CHP Application. Waldbaum's Supermarket (a subsidiary of A&P Foods) is located in Hauppauge, NY on Long Island. This supermarket was originally a 35,000-sq. ft. retail facility. It was gutted to the block walls, expan.. (Download Brochure: PDF)

Essex Junction WWTF: 60 kW CHP Application. Until 2003, the Essex Junction wastewater treatment facility used half the waste methane gas produced by its anaerobic digester to fire the boiler that heated the digester. (Anaerobic digestion stabi.. (Download Brochure: PDF)