Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency - Completed

Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency - Completed

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.

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The latest Energy Department breaking news, announcements, and updates featuring Better Buildings Accelerators.

Partner Profiles

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.

Featured Solutions

The DG for Resilience Planning Guide provides information and resources on how DG, with a focus on combined heat and power (CHP), can help communities meet resilience goals and ensure critical infrastructure remains operational regardless of external events. 
The Guide provides information and resources on how DG, with a focus on combined heat and power (CHP), can help communities meet resilience goals, and ensure critical infrastructure remains operational regardless of external events.
The CHP 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 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 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.
The accomplishments fact sheet provides summaries for the key deliverables from the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Resiliency Accelerator and recognizes partner success in resilience planning and the implementation of CHP/distributed generation programs and initiatives.
This fact sheet highlights the 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.

Other Resources

Fact Sheet

Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency Accelerator partners work to support and expand the consideration of CHP solutions by states, communities and utilities for their critical infrastructure needs.

Additional Information

CHP Basics and Benefits
A summary of basic CHP technology facts and the benefits of utilizing CHP.

U.S. DOE CHP Installation Database
A comprehensive listing of CHP installations throughout the U.S., with information individual CHP sizes, technologies, and end-user applications.

CHP Technical Assistance Partnerships (TAPs)
DOE's CHP Technical Assistance Partnerships (CHP TAPs) promote and assist in transforming the market for CHP, waste heat to power, and district energy technologies/concepts throughout the United States.

CHP Project Profiles Database
Database containing over 130 individual CHP project profiles with relevant geographic, market sector, and CHP technology information – compiled by the CHP TAPs.

Sector Priorities

Partners

A-Z

Amity School District
Edison Electric Institute (EEI)
Health Care Without Harm
Hoboken, NJ
International District Energy Association (IDEA)
Long Island Power Authority
Maryland Department of Commerce
Miami-Dade County, FL
Montgomery County, MD
National Grid
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
New York, NY
Nicor Gas
Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
Spire Inc
State of Missouri
State of Utah
Tennessee Valley Authority
Thermal Energy Corporation
United Illuminating

Location

Connecticut

Amity School District
United Illuminating

District Of Columbia

Edison Electric Institute (EEI)

Florida

Miami-Dade County, FL

Illinois

Nicor Gas

Maryland

Maryland Department of Commerce
Montgomery County, MD

Massachusetts

International District Energy Association (IDEA)

Missouri

State of Missouri

New Jersey

Hoboken, NJ

New York

Long Island Power Authority
National Grid
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
New York, NY

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Tennessee

Tennessee Valley Authority

Texas

Thermal Energy Corporation

Utah

State of Utah

Virginia

Health Care Without Harm