PERC Reports: Volume 20, No.1, Spring 2002  Greener Pastures

E-mail   Print

Full Steam Ahead

[ Full text in PDF ]

More Greener Pastures

Bottled Icebergs

Life After Poaching

Australian Flower Power

As energy efficiency has become a top priority for many companies, cogeneration power plants are supplying some solutions. Cogeneration provides electricity to customers along with steam that can be used in their production or manufacturing processes.

In Orange County, Texas, Conoco Energy Solutions and NRG Energy Inc. have begun operations at a 420-megawatt cogeneration power plant. Run on natural gas, the power plant will supply a DuPont Chemical facility with both power and steam. Because the plant will generate more power than Dupont requires, the excess will be sold into the electricity market.

In California, the 102-megawatt Valero Cogeneration Project will supply energy to the Valero refinery in Benecia by year's end. The power plant will use two combustion turbine engines, fueled by refinery gas, to produce all the electricity needed by the refinery. The steam will be used in refinery processes.

 

 

 

PERC Reports Archives:

Spring 2002
Summary

2012
  No.1
2011
  No.1  No.2  No.3
2010
  No.1  No.2  No.3
2009
  No.1  No.2  No.3
2008
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2007
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2006
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2005
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2004
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2003
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2002
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2001
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4
2000
  No.1  No.2  No.3  No.4

[ search all ]