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

Industrial Technologies Program – Industrial Distributed Energy

Clean Energy Application Centers

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The Department of Energy (DOE) has established Clean Energy Application Centers (RACs) to promote and assist in transforming the market for clean heat and power throughout the U.S. The DOE Clean Energy RACs offer local, individualized solutions to customers on specific projects, provide end-user education and outreach, and lead initiatives to educate state policymakers and regulators.

The core mission of the DOE Clean Energy RACs is to:

  • Support CHP project development by producing project feasibility studies, analyzing permitting issues, and assessing applicable tariffs/rates through technical and financial analyses

  • Promote CHP as an effective clean energy policy solution to state policymakers and regulators and to educate this audience on barriers that prevent widespread adoption of CHP

  • Inform prospective CHP users, including targeted market sector representatives, on resources and incentives available to help facilitate CHP project viability through websites, workshops, and training.

There are eight DOE Clean Energy RACs, which serve the Gulf Coast, Intermountain, Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific, and Southeast regions of the U.S.

DOE Clean Energy RAC Accomplishments to Date:

  • Support for over 350 projects representing 1.3 Giga Watts (GWs) of CHP installed or in development
  • Over 120 end-user focused workshops
  • Targeted end-use sectors include municipal, healthcare, and federal facilities; manufacturing, commercial buildings, multi-family housing, agriculture, waste water treatment plants, waste heat to power, methane recovery to power at livestock operations, and state Energy Assurance departments
  • Over 9,000 attendees educated on the benefits of CHP for their specific applications
  • 7.7 million tons of CO2 avoided, the equivalent of:
    • 1.9 million acres of trees planted, and
    • 1.2 million cars removed from the road.

CHP Application Centers - Intermountain Region: WY, UT, CO, NM, AZ; Mid-Atlantic Region: PA, NJ, DE, MD, WV, WA; Midwest Region: MN, IA, MO, IL, WI, IN, MI, OH; Northeast Region: NY, VT, NH, MA, ME, RI, CT; Northwest Region: AK, WA, OR, ID, MI; Pacific Region: HI, CA, NV; Gulf Coast Region: TX, OK, LA; Southeast Region: AR, MA, AL, GA, FL, SC, NC, TN, KY; Not in a region: ND, SD, KA, PR.

Northwest CHP Application Center Pacific CHP Application Center Intermountain CHP Application Center Mid-Atlantic CHP Application Center Northeast CHP Application Center Pacific CHP Application Center Northwest CHP Application Center Northeast CHP Application Center Midwest CHP Application Center Mid-Atlantic CHP Application Center Intermountain CHP Application Center Gulf Coast CHP Application Center Gulf Coast CHP Application Center Pacific CHP Application Center Southeast Region Southeast CHP Application Center Midwest CHP Application Center

The DOE Clean Energy RACs are led by collaborative partnership among universities, research centers, and non-profit organizations. By virtue of their local and regional focus, the DOE Clean Energy RACs address a wide range of issues, which vary by state and region. The DOE Clean Energy RACs are thus able to respond to their customers' individual needs with specific knowledge on the most relevant issues for local CHP project development.

Links to Web sites, fact sheets, and key contacts for the DOE Clean Energy RACs are as follows:

Region

Information and Key Contacts

Gulf Coast

Daniel Bullock
Houston Advanced Research Center
281-364-6087
dbullock@harc.edu

Intermountain

Patti Case
etc Group
801-278-1927 ext.3
plcase@etcgrp.com

Thomas Broderick
Southwest Energy Efficiency Project
928-527-8036
tbroderick@swenergy.org

Mid-Atlantic

Jim Freihaut
Pennsylvania State University
814-863-0083
jfreihaut@engr.psu.edu

Midwest

John Cuttica
UIC Energy Resources Center
312-996-4382
cuttica@uic.edu

Northeast

Tom Bourgeois
Pace Energy and Climate Center
914-422-4013
tbourgeois@law.pace.edu

Beka Kosanovic
University of Massachusetts Amherst
413-545-0684
kosanovi@ecs.umass.edu

Northwest

David Sjoding
Washington State University
360-956-2004
sjodingd@energy.wsu.edu

Pacific

Tim Lipman
University of California, Berkeley
510-642-4501
telipman@berkeley.edu

Vince McDonell
University of California, Irvine
949-824-7302 ext.121
mcdonell@apep.uci.edu

Southeast

Keith McAllister
North Carolina State University
919-515-3933
keith_mcallister@ncsu.edu

Pedro Mago
Mississippi State University
662-325-6602
mago@me.msstate.edu