Cogeneration

GUERNSEY engineers have extensive experience in developing cogeneration and distributed generation (DG) projects for electric cooperatives, municipal electric systems, as well as commercial and industrial facilities.

Recent power generation technologies enable electric utilities to economically provide temporary or additional capacity to new load centers. Advances in cogeneration and distributed generation systems have also made it more economical for commercial and industrial users to install valuable back-up generation that may also be used for peaking service, as well as generate steam for heat, hot water, humidification, sterilization and absorption cooling in building complexes. In either case, cogeneration or distributed generation assets may be run in parallel with local utility providers.

Distributed generation and cogeneration also serve as excellent back-up generation. Eliminating potentially costly disruptions and increasing reliability is absolute in some industrial and commercial applications.

GUERNSEY power engineers and consultants are able to assist clients in evaluating distributed generation and cogeneration installations and requests for system installations, interconnection agreements, rate analysis, environmental impact and air permits for various types of units such as diesel generators, wind turbines, micro turbines and fuel cells.  They are also able to specify or design required interconnections between the electric utility and generation assets.