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US to lead on efficient design of energy systems
Despite the availability of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technologies and proven benefits and performance of these systems, projects often are not implemented even when investment is compelling. The United States will lead this effort, building on its CHP Partnership Program to identify and clear barriers to efficient design of on-site energy systems. The project will promote collaborative ...
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Harnessing nature`s power: Deploying and financing on-site renewable energy
This report offers strategies and approaches that can be valuable to a wide range of firms looking at potential investments, contracts, and facility operational decisions regarding use of renewable energy. It provides guidance on how to consider the choice to finance or purchase renewable technologies for use on corporate facilities and advice on where to go for further ...
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Industrial Cost Savings From CHP – Case Study
CHP from Flex Turbines provides a cost-effective, efficient, and clean solution for reliable on-site electricity and thermal energy. See how Applied Medical Resources has taken advantage of these benefits in our latest case study video linked below. View the case study video ...
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The Dixon Ridge BioMax Success Story (Winters, California) - Case Study
Dixon Ridge Farms, a vertically integrated farming operation that grows, processes and sells organic walnuts was established by the Lester family in 1979. Each year the farm processes annually more than 1.5 million pounds of walnut meats, resulting in more than 2 million pounds of walnut shell. In the past, Dixon Ridge Farms was selling most of the walnut shell to a nearby large commercial ...
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Providing full-service energy consulting and strategy development case study
Challenge: Antea Group's Global Corporate Consultancy was engaged to provide energy management consulting and strategy development for a multinational provider of consumer goods. Our client requested assistance to define and roll out an energy strategy and management plan for their entire enterprise to reduce energy usage and greenhouse gas emissions across the globe. Our team was ...
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Project with Nexeya - Case Study
Project with Nexeya. HyProvide™ A30 to produce hydrogen on-site using excess renewable energy for energy storage and hydrogen as fuel. Key Facts A-Series A30 Product 65 Production (kg H2/day) 28 Outlet pressure (bar) France Project location On-site production of hydrogen HyProvide™ A30 to produce hydrogen on-site using excess renewable energy for energy storage and hydrogen as ...
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Clarke Energy Deliver Full Turnkey Hydrogen Ready CHP Plant to Sterling Pharma Solutions - Case Study
Sterling Pharma Solutions is a global pharmaceutical contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO). As part of its sustainability strategy, Sterling partnered with Clarke Energy to act as principal contractors, to design, construct and maintain a bespoke hydrogen ready, gas fired combined heat and power (CHP) plant. With on-site energy generation estimated to be 40% more efficient ...
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Green ergonomics and green economics: the effect of feed–in tariff schemes on user behaviours and attitudes towards energy consumption
On 1 April 2010 the UK government introduced 'feed–in tariff' (FIT) legislation to provide incentives for small–scale renewable energy generation, particularly by residential home–owners. This paper investigates the existing knowledge base to consider if living in a property with on–site renewable energy generation may affect user attitudes and behaviours. This knowledge is interpreted from an ...
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OnSite Energy - Case study
OnSite Energy is a locally owned solar energy contractor in Bozeman, Montana that has been specializing in solar design, project development and installation since 2012. This team has a very strong commitment to the environment with industry expertise and loves to help their community feel empowered to choose solar energy. According to OnSite Energy's Communications Director, Nicola Preston, "We ...
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A Michigan Smart Energy Code
There’s been a lot of controversy about the Green New Deal. While we like some of the “big” ideas in the plan, there are many other smaller, less news-worthy ways that can readily enhance energy sustainability. One way is for individual states to make sure that their building code makes it easy to incorporate new energy innovations. Why? There’s no question that ...
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Permianchain Miner: A Mining Pool Aggregator With An Integrated Digital Energy Marketplace For Crypto-Asset Miners
PermianChain Miner, part of the PermianChain platform, offers bitcoin and other cryptocurrency miners tokenized energy. This allows miners access to consistent, low-cost electricity that is generated on site at energy projects, mainly on natural gas production sites. It is an environmentally responsible solution to the problem of flared natural gas which is thought to represent around US$16 ...
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What stops banks from lending to energy efficiency projects?
Four years after the US credit market crashed, energy efficiency projects continue to struggle to secure financing. What’s the problem? A slow economy, of course. But when it comes to energy efficiency – and on-site renewable energy – the problem runs deeper. It’s not lack of interest in green energy. To the contrary, says Angela Ferrante, director of alternative energy ...
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What does the US/China agreement mean for efficiency?
The energy efficiency market has a gawky quality. It is not exactly one market but a conglomeration of various industries as diverse as appliance manufacturers, energy auditors, smart meter software designers and cogeneration developers. They are unified only in their ability to save energy. All arms and legs as it may appear, the efficiency market seems ready to shoot to a new level of maturity. ...
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Project with Alliander - Case Study
HyProvide™ A90 Electrolyser for Ecomunitypark in the Netherlands. To produce hydrogen on-site from excess renewable energy. Key Facts 3 x A-Series A90 Product 580 Production (kg H2/day) 28 Outlet pressure (bar) Netherlands Project location A large-scale Power-to-X pilot project Alliander, a Dutch energy company, chooses Green Hydrogen Systems (GHS) to supply the electrolysers for a ...
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Zero touch energy audit: Will it change the game?
What new energy efficiency technologies will change the game? I’d like to use this space on occasion to explore that question and get your feedback on companies that I profile. This week’s company is FirstFuel Software, which it appears could make the conventional energy building audit go the way of the buggy whip. FirstFuel ‘audits’commercial buildings from afar. No ...
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Photovoltaics and Building Efficiency towards a Net Zero Energy Building (NZEB)
According to statistics, 40% of the energy consumption in Europe comes from the building sector. This led the European Commission to create energy efficiency directives to improve the energy efficiency of buildings, introducing the concept of NZEB or Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings. One of the main measures to be implemented is the requirement for all new buildings from 2021 (public buildings from ...
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Shands Hospital - 4.3 MW CHP & District Heating/Cooling System - Case Study
Quick Facts LOCATION: University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida MARKET SECTOR: Hospital/University FUEL: Natural Gas MAX CAPACITY: 4.3 MW IN OPERATION SINCE: 2009 USE OF THERMAL ENERGY: Heating & cooling EQUIPMENT: 4.3 MW Combustion Turbine, 14,500 lb/hr Heat Recovery Steam Generator, 3 Centrifugal Chillers, Combustion Turbine Inlet Cooling, 30,000 lb/hr Packaged Boiler JOINT PROJECT BY: ...
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The Ricoh Arena in coventry uses eSight to raise awareness of energy management and reduce energy consumption by 15%
Set within a site of more than 40 acres including a 32,000 seat stadium, 15,000 square metre exhibition and conference centre, a bar, hotel, casino and health club, the Ricoh Arena in Coventry is unlike any other development of its kind in the UK. Attracting over one million visitors every year, energy management quickly became a key task for its facilities management team. The Requirement The ...
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Cutting Carbon through Industrial Energy Efficiency: The Case of Midwest Pulp and Paper Mills
While manufacturing is a critical part of the U.S. economy, it’s struggled over the last several years—both financially and environmentally. Overall U.S. manufacturing employment has dropped by more than one-third since 2000. Meanwhile, U.S. industry—of which manufacturing is the largest component—still uses more energy than any other sector and serves as the largest ...
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Palmdale Water District Wind Turbine Project
In response to the 2001 California energy crisis, Black & Veatch acted as the owner's engineer through the construction and commissioning phases of the largest net-metered wind energy project in the United States. The California energy crisis in 2001 made headlines around the world. The country's most populous state was caught in a power delivery squeeze and was beset with runaway ...
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