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CHP systems can help reduce the cost of heating, cooling, or providing power to a wide variety of government and institutional facilities. Installation of CHP systems at these facilities can provide increased power supply reliability, better occupant comfort, improved indoor air quality, and reduced boiler emissions. Major institutional users are colleges/university campuses, district energy/utility facilities, and hospital-type facilities. Medical care facilities average 3.75 MW capacity per site. Colleges/universities average about 12.5 MW per site. Primary schools, on the other hand, have numerous sites, but only average 135 kW per site. Institutional facilities have widely ranging energy needs that require unique solutions appropriate for their specific situations. Because CHP technologies encompass a broad array of flexible and scalable technologies, in many cases a customized solution can be found to fit the exacting needs of institutional clients.

The following institutional sites could make excellent hosts for CHP installations:

► Hospitals
► Municipal
► Universities and colleges
► Wastewater treatment

Market Assessments

Integrated Energy Systems for Buildings: A Market Assessment- Resource Dynamics Corp./ORNL (Sept. 2002)
Market Potential for Advanced Thermally-Activated Buildings: Combined Heat and Power in Five National Accounts - Hospitals - EEA/ORNL (May 2003)
National Account Sector Energy Profiles - Hospitals - EEA/ORNL (Apr. 2003)
Federal CHP Market Assessment - U.S. DOE (Sept. 2002)
Analysis of CHP Potential at Federal Sites- ORNL (Feb. 2002)
Screening of CHP Potential at Federal Sites in Select Regions of the United States- U.S. DOE/ORNL (2001)
The Market and Technical Potential of CHP in the Commercial/Institutional Sector- Onsite Sycom Energy Corp./U.S. DOE (Jan. 2000)

Publications

Combined Heat and Power: Efficient Energy for Local Governments - U.S. EPA CHP Partnership
Roadmap to Energy in the Water and Wastewater Industry- ACEEE (Aug. 2005)

Presentations

Partnerships to Promote CHP for Hospitals- ASHE/U.S. DOE (Dec. 2003)
Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals: What is CHP? - Midwest RAC (Mar. 2003)
Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals: The Business Case for CHP - Midwest (Mar. 2003)
Hospitals Need Reliable Power - Application for Microturbines? - ORNL (Jan. 2004)
CHP for Hospitals - U.S DOE
Cooling, Heating and Power in the Nation's Colleges and Universities: Census, Survey and Lessons Learned - IDEA (2002)

Case Studies

Project Development

The Energy Smart Guide to Campus Cost Savings (Section III) - U.S. DOE
Using Distributed Energy Resources: A How-to Guide for Federal Facility Managers - U.S. DOE
Greening Federal Facilities Guide (2-pager) - NREL (May 2001)
Building Better Buildings: A Blueprint for Sustainable State Facilities - California Sustainable Building Task Force (Dec. 2001)
Public Buildings Manual: A State Guide to Financing, Benchmarking, Retro-commissioning, and Combined Heat and Power - NASEO (Sept. 2004)
Green Guide for Health Care - GGHC (Nov. 2004)
Good Practice Guide: Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals

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