The Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Resiliency Accelerator worked to support and expand the consideration of CHP solutions to keep critical infrastructure operational every day and night regardless of external events. As a collaborative effort with states, communities, utilities, and other stakeholders, Partners examined the perceptions of CHP among resiliency planners, identified gaps in current technologies or information relative to resiliency needs, and developed plans for communities to capitalize on CHP’s strengths as a reliable, high-efficiency, lower-emissions electricity and heating/cooling source for critical infrastructure.
The Distributed Generation (DG) for Resilience Planning Guide provides information and resources on how DG, with a focus on CHP, can help communities meet resilience goals and ensure critical infrastructure (CI) remains operational regardless of external events.
View individual profiles highlighting partner success in resilience planning, implementing programs related to resilience and/or CHP/DG or individual CHP/DG projects, and lessons learned.
The fact sheet provides summaries for the key deliverables from the CHP for Resiliency Accelerator and recognizes partner success in resilience planning and the implementation of CHP/DG programs and initiatives.
Featured Solutions
The DG for Resilience Planning Guide can be used to learn how to determine where DG can be a good fit for CI, what types of DG are best suited to certain types of CI applications, and how to incorporate DG into resilience plans.
The CHP for Resilience Site Screening Tool is an Excel-based tool that can provide an individual site screening assessment for CHP at up to 200 individual sites based on a variety of user inputs and pre-determined metrics.
The web-based version of the CHP for Resilience Site Screening Tool can provide a quick individual site screening assessment for CHP based on a few simple user inputs and pre-determined metrics.
This Excel-based tool can provide a resilience screening assessment for up to 200 individual sites. The tool is based solely on evaluating site resiliency factors and does not take into account onsite economics.
This issue brief explores how different distributed energy resources (DERs) are impacted by various types of natural disasters to assist stakeholders in evaluating the technology options best able to meet their resilience priorities.
This fact sheet highlights the energy resilience and reliability benefits that CHP systems can offer to critical infrastructure facilities, provides information on current and potential CHP installations at critical facilities, and reviews details on the economic impacts of grid outages to industrial and commercial operations.
DOE’s Onsite Energy TAPs provide direct technical assistance to industrial facilities and other large energy users with identifying and implementing technology options, including CHP, for achieving site-specific energy objectives.
Other Resources
Fact Sheet
CHP for Resiliency Accelerator partners worked to support and expand the consideration of CHP solutions by states, communities and utilities for their critical infrastructure needs.
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CHP Basics
Basic information on CHP technologies and applications.DOE CHP Installation Database
Comprehensive listing of CHP installations throughout the United States, with site-specific information on individual CHP system sizes, technologies, and end-user applications.CHP Technical Potential in the United States
Report on the technical potential for CHP, waste heat to power (WHP), and district energy CHP in the United States.CHP Project Profiles Database
Database containing more than 250 individual CHP project profiles with relevant geographic, market sector, and CHP technology information.DOE CHP and District Energy Research & Development (R&D) Activities
Description of the current DOE CHP and District Energy R&D project portfolio.Packaged CHP Accelerator
DOE established the Packaged CHP Accelerator to validate project performance, cost, and installation time of CHP packages across a variety of applications. Accelerator efforts documented reductions in installed cost and installation times of more than 20% for packaged CHP systems compared with custom-engineered systems.EPA CHP Resource Center
Overview of CHP basics, benefits, technologies, policies and incentives, tools, and more.
Partners
- Amity School DistrictEdison Electric Institute (EEI)Health Care Without Harm & Practice GreenhealthHoboken, NJInternational District Energy Association (IDEA)Long Island Power AuthorityMaryland Department of CommerceMiami-Dade County, FLMontgomery County, MDNational GridNew York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)New York, NYNicor GasPennsylvania Public Utility CommissionSpire IncState of MissouriState of UtahTennessee Valley AuthorityThermal Energy CorporationUnited Illuminating
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New York
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)National GridNew York, NYLong Island Power AuthorityMaryland
Maryland Department of CommerceMontgomery County, MDMassachusetts
International District Energy Association (IDEA)Texas
Thermal Energy CorporationTennessee
Tennessee Valley AuthorityFlorida
Miami-Dade County, FLUtah
State of UtahDistrict Of Columbia
Edison Electric Institute (EEI)Connecticut
United IlluminatingAmity School DistrictVirginia
Health Care Without Harm & Practice GreenhealthNew Jersey
Hoboken, NJMissouri
State of MissouriIllinois
Nicor Gas