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Packaged Combined Heat & Power Accelerator - Completed

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Standardized, packaged combined heat and power (CHP) systems can overcome numerous barriers to CHP installations in industrial, commercial, institutional, multifamily, and government and military applications by reducing design errors, limiting uncertainty about projected performance, shortening project install time, streamlining permitting, and reducing overall cost. 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.

CHP Market Sectors

The CHP Market Sector Fact Sheets provide an overview of individual market sectors conducive to packaged CHP deployment, including information on current and potential installations, sector-specific energy requirements, and individual CHP case studies.

Packaged CHP eCatalog

The Packaged CHP eCatalog is a public/private partnership designed to increase deployment of efficient CHP through the development of a searchable web-based system that hosts commercially available packaged CHP systems recognized by DOE to meet specific performance standards.

CHP Technologies

These fact sheets provide information on cost, performance, emissions, and other details about CHP technologies (e.g. reciprocating engines, gas turbines, steam turbines, microturbines, fuel cells, absorption chillers, etc.) and suitability for different application types.

Other Resources

Guidance

CHP Financing Primer Guidance

This financing primer provides checklists of information that financiers need to evaluate CHP investment opportunities and discusses how CHP developers can best tailor their financing approach to a specific project.

Partnership Agreement

Packaged CHP Accelerator Partnership Agreement Partnership Agreement

Building upon the progress of the CHP for Resiliency Accelerator, DOE initiated the Packaged CHP Accelerator to verify improved project performance, cost, and installation practices across a variety of packaged CHP systems. The overarching goal of the Packaged CHP Accelerator was to research and validate that total project costs and installation times for packaged CHP systems can be reduced by 20% or more, and that expected performance is achieved through the use of pre-engineered, technically validated systems that reduce risk for both the CHP user and supplier.

Technical Assistance

Distributed Generation (DG) for Resilience Planning Guide Technical Assistance

The 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 remains operational regardless of external events. 

CHP for Resilience Site Screening Tool (Excel Version) Technical Assistance

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.

CHP for Resilience Site Screening Tool (Web-Based) Technical Assistance

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.

  • 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.

    CHP for Resiliency Accelerator
    CHP for Resiliency Accelerator partners worked to expand the consideration of CHP as a resilience solution by states, communities, and utilities for their critical infrastructure. The completed Accelerator site includes additional resources and tools related to CHP and resilience.

    EPA CHP Resource Center
    Overview of CHP basics, benefits, technologies, policies and incentives, tools, and more.

Partners

  • 2G Energy Inc.
    AB Energy - New Jersey
    AEP Ohio
    Baltimore Gas & Electric
    Capstone Turbine Corporation
    Caterpillar Inc.
    Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)
    Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
    Dalkia Aegis, EDF Group
    DTE Energy
    Franklin Energy Services LLC
    GE Distributed Power
    GEM Energy LLC
    Highland West Energy
    Kraft Power Corporation
    MacAllister Power Systems
    Martin Energy Group
    Maryland Energy Administration
    Missouri Division of Energy
    National Grid
    New Jersey Clean Energy Program (TRC Solutions)
    New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
    Nicor Gas
    Northeast-Western Energy Systems
    One Gas
    Peoples Natural Gas
    Philadelphia Gas Works
    Sterling & Wilson Cogen Solutions, LLC
    Stewart and Stevenson Power Product LLC, Atlantic Division
    Unison Energy, LLC
  • California

    Franklin Energy Services LLC
    Capstone Turbine Corporation

    Idaho

    Highland West Energy

    Illinois

    Franklin Energy Services LLC
    Commonwealth Edison (ComEd)
    Nicor Gas

    Michigan

    DTE Energy

    New Jersey

    AB Energy - New Jersey
    Sterling & Wilson Cogen Solutions, LLC
    Stewart and Stevenson Power Product LLC, Atlantic Division
    New Jersey Clean Energy Program (TRC Solutions)

    New York

    New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
    National Grid
    Northeast-Western Energy Systems
    Consolidated Edison (ConEd)
    Kraft Power Corporation
    Unison Energy, LLC

    Oklahoma

    One Gas

    Maryland

    Maryland Energy Administration
    Baltimore Gas & Electric

    Pennsylvania

    Philadelphia Gas Works
    Peoples Natural Gas

    Washington

    Missouri

    Missouri Division of Energy
    Martin Energy Group

    Indiana

    MacAllister Power Systems

    Ohio

    AEP Ohio
    GEM Energy LLC

    Florida

    2G Energy Inc.

    Wisconsin

    GE Distributed Power

    Massachusetts

    Caterpillar Inc.
    Dalkia Aegis, EDF Group