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• Do you pay more than $0.10 per kWh on average for electricity?​
• Are you concerned about the impact of current or future energy costs on your business?
• Is your facility located in a deregulated electricity market?
• Are you concerned about the reliability of your facility's electricity supply?
• Would there be substantial business, safety, or health impacts if the electricity supply were interrupted?
• Does your facility operate for more than 5,000 hours per year?
• Do you have thermal loads throughout the year (heating/cooling)?
• Do you expect to replace, upgrade, or retrofit central plant equipment (such as generators, boilers, and chillers) soon?
• Do you anticipate a facility expansion or new construction project soon?
• Have you already implemented energy efficiency measures and still have high energy costs?
• Are you interested in reducing your facility's impact on the environment?

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Explore The Benefits Of CHP In The Form Of Gas Turbines

Cost

• Reduced energy costs: CHP reduces energy bills because of its high efficiency. By using waste heat recovery technology to capture wasted heat associated with electricity production, CHP systems typically achieve total system efficiencies of 60 to 80 percent, compared to 50 percent for conventional technologies (i.e., purchased utility electricity and an on-site boiler). Basically less fuel is needed for a given unit of energy output. Also, because CHP systems typically use natural gas which is often cheaper than purchased electricity, CHP can help reduce electricity bills. Bills are further reduced because the CHP output reduces electricity purchases.
• Avoided capital costs: CHP can often reduce the cost of replacing heating equipment.
• Protection of revenue streams: Through on-site generation and improved reliability, CHP can allow facilities to continue operating in the event of a disaster or an interruption of grid-supplied electricity.
• Less exposure to electricity rate increases: Because less electricity is purchased from the grid, facilities have less exposure to rate increases. In addition, a CHP system can be configured to operate on a variety of fuel types, such as natural gas, biogas, coal, and biomass; therefore, a facility could build in fuel switching capabilities to hedge against high fuel prices.

Efficiency

• The average efficiency of fossil-fueled power plants in the United States is 33 percent. This means that two-thirds of the energy used to produce electricity at most power plants in the United States is wasted in the form of heat discharged to the atmosphere.
• By recovering this wasted heat, CHP systems typically achieve total system efficiencies of 60 to 80 percent for producing electricity and useful thermal energy. Some systems achieve efficiencies approaching 90 percent.
• The illustration below demonstrates the efficiency gains of a 5 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired combustion turbine CHP system compared to conventional production of electricity and useful thermal energy (i.e., purchased grid electricity and thermal energy from an on-site boiler).

Environment 

• CHP systems offer considerable environmental benefits when compared with purchased electricity and thermal energy produced on-site. By capturing and utilizing heat that would otherwise be wasted from the production of electricity, CHP systems require less fuel to produce the same amount of energy.
• Because less fuel is combusted, greenhouse gas emissions, such as carbon dioxide (CO2), as well as other air pollutants like nitrogen oxides (NOx) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), are reduced.
• The following diagram shows the magnitude of reduced CO2 emissions of a 5 megawatt (MW) natural gas-fired CHP system compared to the same energy output from conventional sources.

Reliability

• In addition to reducing operating costs, CHP systems can be designed to continue operating in the event of grid outages to supply continuous power for critical functions.
• Interruptions of grid-supplied electricity service represents a quantifiable business, safety, and health risk for some facilities.
• The first step in incorporating CHP into a strategy to reduce business risk is to calculate the value of reliability and risk of outages for a specific facility.
• After identifying and quantifying (in monetary terms) the value of reliable power to facility operations, the costs of designing and configuring CHP technology for outage protection can be estimated and evaluated. CHP systems can be configured to meet the specific reliability needs and risk profiles of any facility.

​Avoided Transmission and Distribution Losses

By producing electricity onsite, CHP also avoids transmission and distribution (T&D) losses that occur when electricity travels over power lines. Within the five major power grids in the United States, average T&D losses vary from 4.23 percent to 5.35 percent, with a national average of 4.48 percent (Source: Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database [eGRID]). Losses can be even higher when the grid is strained and temperatures are high. By avoiding T&D losses associated with conventional electricity supply, CHP further reduces fuel use, helps avoid the need for new T&D infrastructure, and eases grid congestion when demand for electricity is high.

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