• Home
• About
• Advanced Reciprocating Engine Systems
• CHP Basics
• Benefits of CHP
• Research & Development
• Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs)
• CHP Projects
• Partnerships
• Funding Opportunities
• Legislative Initiatives
• Information Resources

Clean Energy Application Centers

DOE's Regional Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs), formerly called the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Regional Application Centers (RACs), promote and assist in transforming the market for CHP, waste heat to power, and district energy technologies and concepts throughout the United States.

Key services of the Regional Clean Energy Application Centers include:

• Market Assessments – Supporting analyses of CHP market potential in diverse sectors such as health care, industrial sites, hotels, and new commercial and institutional buildings.

• Education and Outreach – Providing information on the benefits and applications of CHP to state and local policy makers, regulators, energy end-users, trade associations, and others.

• Technical Assistance – Providing technical information to energy end-users and others to help them consider if CHP, waste heat recovery or district energy makes sense for them. This includes performing site assessments, producing project feasibility studies, and providing technical and financial analyses.

The Clean Energy Application Centers are offering technical assistance to the more than 550 major source facilities impacted by the Boiler MACT regulation. For this technical assistance, contact:

• John Cuttica – Midwest, Intermountain, Northwest, and Pacific Regions
• Jim Freihaut – Mid-Atlantic Region
• Beka Kosanovic – Northeast Region
• Isaac Panzarella – Southeast and Gulf Coast Regions

To learn more about the involvement of Clean Energy Application Centers in project development, visit the CHP Projects page. For more information on a particular CEAC, see the table below.

 

Contacts Claudia Tighe Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy U.S. Department of Energy 202-586-6294 claudia.tighe@ee.doe.gov Joe Renk National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) U.S. Department of Energy 412-386-6406 joseph.renk@netl.doe.gov Ted Bronson DOE CEAC Coordinator Power Equipment Associates 630-248-8778 tlbronsonpea@aol.com

To learn more about the DOE CEACs, please read this informative handout.

Gulf Coast	Intermountain
www.gulfcoastcleanenergy.org Gavin Dillingham Houston Advanced Research Center 281-364-4060 gdillingham@harc.edu	www.intermountaincleanenergy.org Christine Brinker Southwest Energy Efficiency Project 720-939-8333 cbrinker@swenergy.org Patti Case etc Group 801-278-1927 ext.3 plcase@etcgrp.com
Mid-Atlantic	Midwest
www.maceac.psu.edu Jim Freihaut Pennsylvania State University 814-863-0083 jfreihaut@engr.psu.edu	www.midwestcleanenergy.org John Cuttica University of Illinois at Chicago 312-996-4382 cuttica@uic.edu Cliff Haefke University of Illinois at Chicago 312-355-3476 chaefk1@uic.edu
Northeast	Northwest
www.northeastcleanenergy.org Tom Bourgeois Pace University 914-422-4013 tbourgeois@law.pace.edu Beka Kosanovic University of Massachusetts Amherst 413-545-0684 kosanovi@ecs.umass.edu	www.northwestcleanenergy.org David Sjoding Washington State University 360-956-2004 sjodingd@energy.wsu.edu
Pacific	Southeast
www.pacificcleanenergy.org 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	www.southeastcleanenergy.org Isaac Panzarella North Carolina State University 919-515-0354 ipanzarella@ncsu.edu Pedro Mago Mississippi State University 662-325-6602 mago@me.msstate.edu
International District Energy Association
www.districtenergy.org Rob Thornton President 508-366-9339 rob.idea@districtenergy.org