U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Industrial Technologies Program – Industrial Distributed Energy

Energy Analysis

CHP is one of the most promising options in the U.S. energy efficiency portfolio. By combining environmental effectiveness with economic viability and improved competitiveness, CHP is deployable in the near term and can help address current and future U.S. energy needs. Read more about the opportunities of CHP in "Combined Heat and Power: Effective Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future" (PDF 2.5 MB). Download Adobe Reader.

The Industrial Technologies Program (ITP) conducts analyses to identify the best opportunities for energy savings. These analyses recognize the disparate characteristics of energy use among industries and component system within industries.

The publications below are from 2003 to the present. For earlier publications, please visit the archive sub-page.

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Recent Publications
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Vision and Roadmaps
Component Technology Research and Development
Footprints
Integrated Energy Systems
Market Transformation 

• Clean Energy Application Centers
• CHP Assessments
• Tools and Training
• CHP Databases
• Strategies to Overcome Utility and Regulatory Barriers
• CHP Education and Outreach
• Business Case Support
• Technical and Financial Risk Mitigation Strategies

Recent Publications

• Combined Heat and Power: A Decade of Progress, A Vision for the Future (PDF 5.4 MB), August 2009

• Combined Heat and Power: Effective Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future (PDF 2.5 MB), Oak Ridge National Laboratory, December 2008

• Powering Progress in Combined Heat and Power (CHP): For Now, For the Future (PDF 3.5 MB), 2008

• Industrial Technologies Program Combined Heat and Power Four-Page Brochure (PDF 2.0 MB), 2008

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Vision and Roadmaps

• Combined Heat and Power (CHP): A Vision for the Future of CHP in the U.S. in 2020 (PDF 1.1 MB), September 1999

• Micro-CHP Technologies Roadmap: Meeting 21st Century Residential Energy Needs (PDF 398 KB), December 2003

• National CHP Roadmap (PDF 2.2 MB), March 2001

Component Technology Research and Development

• Advanced Microturbine System: Market Assessment (PDF 1.0 MB), May 2003

  

  Learn more about the opportunities for CHP and ITP's supporting activities (PDF 3.5 MB).

• Advanced Microturbine Systems (PDF 2.4 MB), 2003

• ARES: Gas Engines for Today and Beyond (PDF 258 KB), May 2003

• Ceramic Reliability for Microturbine Hot-Section Components (PDF 1.6 MB)

• DER Materials Quarterly Progress Report for the Period January 1, 2004 to March 31, 2004, March 2004

  • Recuperators (PDF 672 KB)
  • Ceramics and Composites (PDF 2.9 MB)
  • Coatings, Power Electronics, and Materials for Advanced Reciprocating Engines (PDF 4.4 MB)

• Distributed Energy Technology Characterization (PDF 2.6 MB), January 2004

• Engine Driven Combined Heat and Power: Arrow Linen Supply (PDF 424 KB), December 2008

• Guide to Developing Air-Cooled LiBr Absorption for Combined Heat and Power Applications (PDF 1.3 MB), April 2005

• Keeping the High-Tech Industry Plugged-In with Onsite Energy (PDF 385 KB), 2005

• Market Potential for Advanced Thermally Activated BCHP in Five National Account Sectors (PDF 389 KB), May 2003

• Micro-CHP Technologies Roadmap: Meeting 21st Century Residential Energy Needs (PDF 398 KB), December 2003

• Microturbine Power Conversion Technology Review (PDF 846 KB), April 2003

• Review of Thermally Activated Technologies (PDF 1.1 MB), July 2004

• Thermally Activated Technologies: Technology Roadmap (PDF 2.2 MB), May 2003

Footprints

The U.S. Manufacturing and Mining Energy Footprints provide a graphical representation of the flow of energy across the most energy-intensive industries. The footprints show where energy is used inside plant boundaries, where losses occur on-site, which are the most widely used energy systems for each industry, and much more.

Integrated Energy Systems

• A Case for CHP Commissioning (PDF 1.9 MB), April 2008

• Commissioning of CHP Systems (PDF 860 KB), April 2008

• Data Collection and Analysis of the CHP System at EMMC (PDF 10.7 MB)

• Design, Installation, and Field Verification of Integrated Active Desiccant Hybrid Rooftop Systems Combined with a Natural Gas Driven Cogeneration Package (PDF 1.4 MB), January 2008

• Economic Potential of CHP in Detroit Edison Service Area: The Customer Perspective (PDF 331 KB), June 2003

• Environmental Barrier Coating (PDF 5.1 MB), 2003

• Integrated Energy Systems (IES) Webcast (PDF 1.4 MB) and (PDF 310 KB), October 2005

• Modular Combined Heat & Power System for Utica College: Design Specification (PDF 1.3 MB), March 2007

• National Account Energy Alliance Final Report for the Field Scale Test and Verification of a PureComfort 240M Combined Heat and Power System at the Ritz Carlton, San Francisco (PDF 2.7 MB), August 2007

• Recuperator Materials Development (PDF 2.4 MB), 2003

Market Transformation

Clean Energy Application Centers

• CHP Regional Application Centers Information Sheet (PDF 238 KB), 2007

CHP Assessments

• Assessment of Large Combined Heat and Power Market (PDF 505 KB), April 2004

• Characterization of the U.S. Industrial/Commercial Boiler Population (PDF 1.6 MB), May 2005

• CHP Market Potential in the Western States (PDF 524 KB), September 2005

• Cool Trends in District Energy (PDF 87 KB), June 2005

• Cool Trends on Campus (PDF 98 KB), May 2005

• Cooling, Heating, and Power for Industry: A Market Assessment (PDF 992 KB), August 2003

• Current CHP Opportunities at U.S. Colleges and Universities (PDF 602 KB), November 2003

• Energy Efficiency Solutions to the Nation's Natural Gas Problems (PDF 319 KB), June 2003

• Impacts of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy on Natural Gas Markets (PDF 175 KB), January 2005

• Market Assessment of CHP for New Commercial Buildings and Critical Infrastructure Facilities (PDF 992 KB), October 2006

• Model for Sustainable Urban Design (PDF 3.8 MB), February 2004

• Sector Profiles of Significant Large CHP Markets (PDF 689 KB), March 2004

• The Value of Distributed Generation and Combined Heat and Power Resources in Wholesale Power Markets (PDF 621 KB), September 2005

Tools and Training

• A Blueprint for Urban Sustainability: Integrating Sustainable Energy Practices into Metropolitan Planning (PDF 2.5 MB), May 2004

• A Framework for Developing Collaborative DER Programs: Working Tools for Stakeholders (PDF 736 KB)

• BCHP Screening Tool (PDF 383 KB)

• Building Energy Analyzer (PDF 309 KB)

• CHP Capacity Optimizer Software (Zip 6.7 MB) and User Manual (PDF 1.4 MB), 2005

• CHP Emissions Calculator (Excel 28 KB)

• CHP Resource Guide (PDF 871 KB), September 2005

• CHP Walk-Through Checklist (Excel 66 KB)

• Cogen Screening Assessor (Excel 401 KB)

• Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Application Tool

  • Fact Sheet (PDF 1.3 MB)
  • Download Software

• Combined Heat and Power Application Tool for Industrial Heating Systems (Zip 14.9 MB)

• D-Gen Pro (PDF 245 KB)

• Developing A CHP Project

  • Walk-Through Analysis

• FEMP CHP Screening Analysis (Excel 1.0 MB)

• GT Pro (PDF 236 KB)

• Guide to Combined Heat and Power Systems for Boiler Owners and Operators (PDF 6.3 MB), July 2004

• Heatmap CHP (PDF 34 KB)

• Illinois CHP/BCHP Environmental Permitting Guidebook, January 2003

  • Volume A: Roadmapping the Permitting Process (PDF 5.4 MB)
  • Volume B: Permitting Issues (PDF 457 KB)

• Plant Design Expert (PDF 180 KB)

• RECIPRO (PDF 105 KB)

• Simple Payback Algorithm, 2004

• SOAPP-CT.25 (PDF 78 KB)

• State Opportunities for Action: Update of States' Combined Heat and Power Activities (PDF 1.2 MB), October 2003

• Survey of DER/CHP Software (PDF 1.6 MB), February 2003

• Survey of Emissions Models for Distributed Combined Heat and Power Systems (PDF 193 KB), January 2007

CHP Databases

• CHP Permitting and Regulatory Database, 2008

• CHP State and Regional Database, October 2007

• Database of U.S. Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Installations Incorporating Thermal Energy Storage and/or Turbine Inlet Cooling (PDF 666 KB), September 2004

• DG Operational Reliability and Availability Database, Executive Summary Report (PDF 1.3 MB), November 2003, and Final Report (PDF 2.0 MB), March 2007

• TIC TES Database (PDF 879 KB) and Draft Summary Report of TIC TES Database (PDF 144 KB), September 2003

Strategies to Overcome Utility and Regulatory Barriers

• Barriers to CHP with Renewable Portfolio Standards (PDF 398 KB), September 2007

• CHP: Connecting the Gap Between Markets and Utility Interconnection and Tariff Practices Part I (PDF 502 KB), March 2006, and Part II (PDF 591 KB), August 2006

• Output Based Regulation for CHP (PDF 528 KB), 2003

CHP Education and Outreach

• Annual Workshop Results for the National CHP Roadmap

   

  • Baltimore (PDF 429 KB), 2000 and 2001 (PDF 42 KB)
  • Boston (PDF 20 KB), 2002
  • Chicago (PDF 215 KB), 2003
  • Austin (PDF 688 KB), 2004
  • New York City (PDF 450 KB), 2005
  • Seattle (PDF 535 KB), 2006

• Capital Hill briefings

  • Multi-family Housing: An Underserved Market for Combined Heat and Power (September 19, 2005)

  • After the Energy Bill: What Needs to Be Done for Distributed Energy and Why? (October 3, 2005)

  • Energy Emergencies, Higher Prices: What Needs to Be Done? (October 12, 2005)

  • Recycled Energy and Regional CHP Application Centers: A Local Energy Solution (December 14, 2005)

  • The Perfect Power System: What Is It and Why Is It Important? (April 26, 2006)

• Case Studies for Alaska, Oregon, and Washington

• Combined Heat and Power Education and Outreach Guide to State and Federal Government (PDF 707 KB), October 2005

• Food Processing Web site

• Targeted CHP Outreach in Selected Sectors of the Commercial Market (PDF 3.5 MB), 2004

Business Case Support

• Characterization of the Installed Costs of Prime Movers using Gaseous Opportunity Fuels – Report Addendum (PDF 185 KB), September 2007

• CHP and Bioenergy Systems for Landfills and Wastewater Treatment Plants Part I (PDF 343 KB) and Part II (PDF 442KB), November 2007

• Combined Heat and Power Market Potential for Opportunity Fuels (PDF 2.6 MB), August 2004

• Economic Potential of CHP in Detroit Edison Service Area: The Customer Perspective (PDF 331 KB), June 2003

Technical and Financial Risk Mitigation Strategies

• Assessing the Benefits of On-Site Combined Heat and Power During the August 14, 2003, Blackout (PDF 183 KB), June 2004

• "More Than 200 Hospitals Nationwide Are Recycling Energy for Peak Performance", Distributed Energy, January/February 2004