Advanced Manufacturing Office: Industrial Distributed Energy

Search the CHP Project Profiles Database

Combined heat and power (CHP) is a key component of distributed energy within the Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO). CHP—sometimes referred to as cogeneration—provides a cost-effective, near-term opportunity to improve our nation's energy, environmental, and economic future.

Accelerated CHP has proven its effectiveness and holds promise for the future—as an:

Environmental Solution – Significantly reducing CO₂ emissions through greater energy efficiency
Competitive Business Solution – Increasing efficiency, reducing business costs, and creating green-collar jobs
Local Energy Solution – Deployable throughout the United States
Infrastructure Modernization Solution – Relieving grid congestion and improving energy security.

CHP Project Profiles Database

CHP project profiles compiled by DOE's Regional Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs) can be accessed via a user-friendly database. Project profiles can be searched by state, CEAC, market sector, North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code, system size, technology/prime mover, fuel, thermal energy use, and year installed. Access the CHP Project Profiles database.

Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs)

DOE's Regional Clean Energy Application Centers (CEACs) promote and assist in transforming the market for CHP, waste heat recovery, and district energy technologies and concepts throughout the United States.

State & Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action)

DOE has partnered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on the State & Local Energy Efficiency Action Network (SEE Action). SEE Action is a state and local effort facilitated by the federal government that helps states, utilities, and other local stakeholders take energy efficiency to scale and achieve all cost-effective energy efficiency by 2020. The Industrial Energy Efficiency/Combined Heat & Power Working Group is developing a number of resources.