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.

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

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