Transforming the Market Through Education and Outreach

The Regional Application Centers (RACs) have led or been engaged in over 120 end-user focused workshops on such topics as CHP for municipal waste treatment facilities, combined heat and power (CHP) on farms, industrial CHP opportunities, and CHP opportunities in casinos, hotels, hospitals, and universities. These workshops have been attended by over 9,000 individuals, including component and system manufacturers, installers, architects and building engineers and operators, project developers and financiers, and policy-makers. The workshops have been designed to improve the understanding and application of CHP in sites across all market sectors. Education programs have been provided on:

Waste Heat to Power
Manufacturing
Save Energy Now (SEN) CHP Opportunities
Food Processing
Forest Products
Ethanol
Hospitals
Waste Water Treatment Plants
Anaerobic Digesters for Dairy Farms
Schools
Energy Assurance/Disaster Mitigation
Premium Power
Municipal CHP Systems.

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has supported the development of the National CHP Roadmap (PDF 2.2 MB), annual conferences and workshops on CHP, including updates to CHP technical and institutional potential and actual installations, annual CHP action plans and bi-annual peer reviews at which evaluations of DOE's component and system R&D portfolio have been conducted and which provide an opportunity for the public to hear about each of the projects underway with federal dollars.

DOE has also produced educational and outreach materials on CHP to improve national and international understanding of CHP technologies, markets, and policies across the globe. These have included case studies, Technology and Project Fact Sheets, exhibits, web sites, and support for web casts and webinars.