The webinar series includes presentations related to packaged CHP technologies, markets, and policies, as well as topical information about the Packaged CHP Accelerator and eCatalog developments.
| Title | Date | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Packaged CHP Accelerator | January 26, 2023 | This meeting provided a retrospective of the Accelerator’s activities and accomplishments and discussed the transition of the CHP Engagement Partners to the Packaged CHP eCatalog Customer Engagement Network. The meeting also highlighted DOE’s plans to expand the CHP Technical Assistance Partnership (CHP TAP) program by initiating a new Onsite Energy TAP program to provide technical assistance on a broader set of onsite clean energy generation and storage technologies. |
| Hydrogen Infrastructure | August 4, 2022 | In this webinar, Mike McCurdy, Managing Director of Energy Advisory Services at ICF, reports on recent work evaluating how hydrogen infrastructure could evolve over the next decade. The discussion includes factors expected to influence hydrogen demand, supply, and potential delivery systems, and how they could influence the availability of hydrogen for CHP. |
| CHP and Controlled Environment Agriculture/Greenhouses | September 22, 2021 | Rich Sweetser, Coordinator of the DOE Packaged CHP eCatalog; Aaron Tasin, Vice President of Product Support Operations and Sales for Northeast Energy Systems/Western Energy Systems; and Dick Kramp, CEO at AB Greenhouse Power Netherlands discussed the opportunities, challenges, and benefits of applying CHP in Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) applications. |
| CHP for Hospitals | May 26, 2021 | Cliff Haefke, Director of the DOE’s Midwest CHP TAP, Jack Sins, Vice President of Business Development, Unison Energy, and Mark Mears, Director of Facility Management at Union Hospital of Cecil County discuss the opportunities, challenges, and benefits of applying CHP at hospitals and healthcare facilities. |
| CHP Incentive Programs: Program Design, Analysis, and Implementation | October 23, 2019 | This webinar details the approach to designing and implementing a CHP deployment program from a utility perspective (DTE Energy – Michigan). It focuses on assessing CHP program development steps, valuating program design options, and challenges & benefits in program implementation. |
| CHP and Hydrogen | April 29, 2021 | Industry experts discuss the infrastructure and operational requirements of using hydrogen as a fuel for CHP systems, the current status and future capability of CHP systems operating on hydrogen, and how hydrogen-fueled CHP can be a key path to deep decarbonization. |
| Microgrid Database and Website | March 25, 2021 | Introduces DOE's new Microgrid Installation Database. The database includes information on operational microgrids across the United States, similar to the CHP Installation Database. Many microgrids include packaged CHP systems for resilient baseload power and heat. This webinar reviews summary statistics and trends related to microgrids with CHP and provides a demonstration of the new Microgrid Database website. |
| REopt Lite | February 18, 2021 | Highlights and demonstrates NREL’s free, online REopt Lite web tool that was developed to perform feasibility analyses for grid-connected photovoltaics, wind, and battery storage. The tool uses tailored facility data (including utility rates, billing history, and local weather) to help users identify optimal system sizes and battery dispatch strategies that minimize energy costs. In this latest update supported by DOE’s Advanced Manufacturing Office, the REopt Lite team added CHP and thermal storage, expanding the model’s scope beyond electric-only strategies to include a new universe of thermal energy opportunities. |
| Renewable Natural Gas: Opportunities and Challenges for the CHP Industry | November 5, 2020 | Provides an overview of the use of renewable natural gas (RNG) by utilities and in CHP systems. Includes information on CHP’s role in decarbonization, opportunities and challenges for RNG use in the CHP industry, and a utility perspective on RNG. |
| CHP Financing Strategies, Solutions, and Case Studies | June 24, 2020 | Provides an overview of CHP financing strategies, relevant tools and resources, and detailed case studies highlighting different financing approaches for three recent CHP projects. |
| Better Buildings Summit 2020: Packaged CHP eCatalog and Accelerator Program | June 10, 2020 | An overview of the Packaged CHP eCatalog and Accelerator Program focused on the benefits of packaged CHP and how the eCatalog and accelerator can facilitate growth in non-traditional CHP markets. |
| CHP Programs: Application Review and EM&V Best Practices | December 4, 2019 | Provides an overview of CHP deployment programs from a state perspective (Maryland), focusing on the application requirements and review process for a CHP project incentive, and evaluation, measurement, and verification (EM&V) of project savings. |
| CHP Incentive Programs: Program Design, Analysis, and Implementation | October 23, 2019 | This webinar details the approach to designing and implementing a CHP deployment program from a utility perspective (DTE Energy – Michigan). It focuses on assessing CHP program development steps, valuating program design options, and challenges & benefits in program implementation. |
| CHP Feasibility Screening Options & Working with the CHP TAPs | September 25, 2019 | Highlights DOE’s CHP Technical Partnerships (TAPs) and how they can help Customer Engagement Partners (states and utilities with CHP deployment programs) promote packaged CHP to end-users and design engineers in their regions. |
| CHP in Microgrids & Packaged CHP for Enhanced Resilience | August 15, 2019 | Provides an overview of how CHP can enhance resilience (results, tools, and resources from DOE's CHP for Resiliency Accelerator), and how CHP can serve as the base for resilient clean energy microgrids. The webinar features a microgrid case study from Montclair State University. |
| CHP Programs and Market Engagement Efforts | March 20, 2019 | Covers CHP program outreach, technical assistance, and education activities designed to enhance the deployment of packaged CHP. The webinar highlights NYSERDA’s CHP Program and features speakers from NYSERDA and ERS. |