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Institutional Buildings
 
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:

Resource Directory

Market Assessments

Adobe PDF Integrated Energy Systems for Buildings: A Market Assessment
(1.60 MB)
Adobe PDF Market Potential for Advanced Thermally-Activated Buildings: Combined Heat and Power in Five National Accounts - Hospitals
(351 KB)
Adobe PDF National Account Sector Energy Profiles - Hospitals
(3.02 MB)
Adobe PDF Federal CHP Market Assessment
(545 KB)
Adobe PDF Analysis of CHP Potential at Federal Sites
(922 KB)
Adobe PDF Screening of CHP Potential at Federal Sites in Select Regions of the United States
(573 KB)
Adobe PDF The Market and Technical Potential of CHP in the Commercial/Institutional Sector
(312 KB)

Publications
Adobe PDF Combined Heat and Power: Efficient Energy for Local Governments
(165 KB)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, CHP Partnership
Adobe PDF Roadmap to Energy in the Water and Wastewater Industry
(213 KB)

Presentations
Adobe PDF Partnerships to Promote CHP for Hospitals
(1.21 MB)
Adobe PDF Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals: What is CHP?
(950 KB)
Adobe PDF Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals: The Business Case for CHP
(722 KB)
Adobe PDF Hospitals Need Reliable Power - Application for Microturbines?
(2.81 MB)
Adobe PDF CHP for Hospitals
(931 KB)
Adobe PDF Cooling, Heating and Power in the Nation's Colleges and Universities: Census, Survey and Lessons Learned
(773 KB)

Case Studies
Adobe PDF Union Center Plaza IV Building - Washington, DC
(499 KB)
Adobe PDF Trigen Energy Corporation - Oklahoma City, OK
(230 KB)
Adobe PDF RBJ Health Center - TX
(326 KB)
Adobe PDF Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge, LA
(70 KB)
Adobe PDF Rice University - Houston, TX
(286 KB)
Adobe PDF UT-Austin - Austin, TX
(856 KB)
Adobe PDF Rochester Water Reclamation Plant - Rochester, MN
(161 KB)
Adobe PDF Western Lake Superior Sanitary District - Duluth, MN
(225 KB)

Project Development
External Link CHP On Campus Online Guidebook
Adobe PDF The Energy Smart Guide to Campus Cost Savings (DOE) - Section III devoted to CHP
(1.43 MB)
Adobe PDF Using Distributed Energy Resources: A How-to Guide for Federal Facility Managers
(416 KB)
Adobe PDF Greening Federal Facilities Guide (2-pager)
(213 KB)
Adobe PDF Building Better Buildings: A Blueprint for Sustainable State Facilities (California)
(504 KB)
Adobe PDF Public Buildings Manual: A State Guide to Financing, Benchmarking, Retro-commissioning, and Combined Heat and Power
(355 KB)
Adobe PDF Green Guide for Health Care
(1.51 MB)
Adobe PDF Good Practice Guide: Combined Heat and Power for Hospitals
(453 KB)

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