Read more about DOE's CHP Program in Combined Heat and Power: A Decade of Progress, A Vision for the Future (PDF 4.7 MB). Download Adobe Reader.
Combined heat and power (CHP) is a key component of distributed energy within the Industrial Technologies Program (ITP). CHP provides a cost-effective, near-term opportunity to improve our nation's energy, environmental, and economic future.
Accelerated CHP has proven its effectiveness and holds promise for the future—as an:
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Environmental Solution: Significantly reducing CO2 emissions through greater energy efficiency
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Competitive Business Solution: Increasing efficiency, reducing business costs, and creating green-collar jobs
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Local Energy Solution: Deployable throughout the U.S.
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Infrastructure Modernization Solution: Relieving grid congestion and improving energy security.
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ITP supports the installation of a CHP system at a Frito-Lay food processing facility in Killingly, Connecticut. The CHP system will generate almost 100% of the facility's electrical requirements, use waste heat to produce steam for manufacturing, reduce carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions, and ease transmission congestion.
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