Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production Articles, July 2010

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Features

The changing landscape for distributed generation in the US

The convergence of a series of environmental concerns, including the Gulf of Mexico situation, coupled with advances in technology ...

Investing in distributed energy in China

he Global Environment Facility is the world’s largest public fund to protect the global environment.

Sydney aims to switch to 100% decentralized trigeneration

The City of Sydney in Australia has unveiled ambitious plans to eventually supply all of its electricity needs ...

Berlin plans more mini and micro CHP capacity

The joining of two major district heating networks after the fall of the Berlin Wall created what is said to be Europe’s largest decentralized energy system

Biogas from sewage plants helping to meet California?s environmental mandates

The potential for the on-site generation of heat and power from bio-wastes at water treatment plants in California is substantial ...

Regulars

China: the potential for CHP quantified

While many believe that China is the sleeping dragon of CHP, few had a true idea of the potential magnitude of the market.

Recognizing the importance of heat

I was struck by the presence at the recent Powergen Europe exhibition held in Amsterdam by the growing number of companies marketing technologies to capture and make use of heat being created and then discarded in various settings

News

Siemens Energy has received an order for a condensing steam turbine generator to supply the Latvian capital Riga with district heat

WADE pages

The World Alliance for Decentralized Energy (WADE) was established in 1997 as a non-profit research and promotion organization ...

Project Profiles

PAFC fuel cell trigeneration system for Transport for London HQ

A 200 kWe trigeneration system based on a PAFC fuel cell has been operating successfully at a local government headquarters building in London for a year and a half.

Biomass gasification scheme heats harbourfront community

Canada’s latest ‘green’ community, Dockside Green in the city of Victoria, is anchored by a district energy system based on biomass gasification technology ...

Award winning CHP in Germany

Hotels are one of the classic applications for small-scale CHP units. One such installation at a hotel in the Harz National Park in Germany won a project of the year award  ...

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