This workshop is for end-users and decision-makers in California, Nevada, Hawaii, and Arizona. It is designed to bring you “up to speed” on new opportunities for combined heat and power – or re-cycling energy on-site, at your facility. It will showcase twelve case studies in three separate tracks – providing real examples of cost-effective technology applications in businesses just like yours!  In addition, it will overview the current situation in these states relative to combined heat and power equipment.  Learn about incentives, financing strategies, and general “rules of thumb” you’ll need to get your project off the ground and make it pay back as soon as possible.

Who should attend?

• Hospital Administrators and Managers
• Wastewater Treatment Plant and Landfill Managers
• College and University Energy Managers
• Food and Beverage Plant Managers
• Utility Managers
• Bio-Tech Professionals
• Energy and Building Consultants
• Financiers

Take just a moment to see how this workshop applies to your facility!

HOSPITALS – Many hospitals are prime candidates for CHP. It protects hospitals from disruptions in energy transmission, decreases current energy costs and serves as a hedge against rising or at least volatile future costs associated with deregulation, and it greatly enhances energy efficiency. According to some estimates, CHP provides as much as 80 percent energy efficiency compared to 33 percent efficiency from traditional sources of power.

UNIVERSITIES – District energy systems on college and university campuses are well suited for CHP applications because they significantly expand the amount of thermal loads potentially served by CHP; reduce the requirement for size and capital investment in production equipment due to the "diversity" of consumer loads; use larger and more efficient equipment and can take advantage of such things as thermal energy storage that aren't economically effective on a small scale; and aggregate thermal loads, enabling more cost-effective CHP.

In addition, many campus facility managers are well-qualified to understand and maintain CHP systems, and motivated to share their successes with other managers in a collegial atmosphere.

BEVERAGE SITES – Breweries and dairies use a great deal of water and produce wastewater that must then be cleaned and returned to the plant. Rather than pay a municipal water treatment facility to clean and produce water for processing, some breweries are processing clean water themselves, by purchasing water treatment equipment, including an anaerobic digester. Methane from the digester generates electricity and heat. By cogenerating with heat recovery, the engine uses biogas fueled from the brewery process, saving both water and fuel costs.

WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS and LANDFILLS - Generating renewable energy and heat from methane (produced as a by-product at landfills and many wastewater treatment plants) leads to efficiency gains, other environmental benefits, potentially lower energy bills, greater energy reliability, greater self-reliance, and a profitable use of an otherwise-wasted resource.