The town leaders at New Canaan, Connecticut have decided that a dedicated combined heat and power plant is the way to go for the third time to improve its energy efficiencies and resiliency.
The Selectman council voted to approve $355,000 in allocations to fund a CHP plant installed for the town hall. The municipality also has cogeneration facilities powering its wastewater treatment and highway garage facilities, according to local news reports.
The 35-kW facility would be about the same size as the others, according to reports. Town leaders have said the CHP plants for both wastewater and highway work each remove emissions equivalent to about 25 cars off the road.
The town in Fairfield County serves close to 20,000 residents. For more information, cllck here to see Stamford Advocate story about the New Canaan CHP vote.
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Many market forecasts have predicted that micro CHP installations could grow more than 15 percent annually from current installed levels. Lower natural gas prices to fuel power generation, as well as concerns over energy resiliency from the grid, could help drive that growth, according to reports.
The cogeneration power plant can generate both electricity and heat from the same resource, such as natural gas or biogas.
EnergyTech held a live webinar earlier this week which include an energy manager talking about the CHP plan at the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center complex. The free webinar is available free and on demand here in the link below.
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(Rod Walton, senior editor for EnergyTech, is a 14-year veteran of covering the energy industry both as a newspaper and trade journalist. He can reached at [email protected]).
