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Community energy systems are required to supply energy according to reliability and quality specifications but also under economic profitability conditions. These simple goals ...

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Despite a growing recognition of the bottom-line value of CHP, District Energy and other energy efficiency/energy conservation projects, getting budget approval and financing ...

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In this study, the exergy could be reflected on energetic and economic value was used to assess on heat tariff of district heating(DH) system instead of enthalpy. As a result ...

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With the cost of energy usage accounting for over half of the typical O&M budget, reducing this cost provides the best opportunity to reduce the cost structure of the enterprise. ...

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Lulu Island Energy Company (a wholly-owned municipal corporation) and Corix Utilities (a private utility company) created a 30-year private-public partnership to develop ...

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Net zero energy (NZE) at the district scale can deliver lower life-cycle costs compared to business-as-usual at similar first costs, while creating a more healthy, resilient, ...

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The University of Pittsburgh's Center for Energy is working with industry, utility, and community partners to design, implement, and analyze microgrid deployment in the Pittsburgh ...

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Storage, part of most natural & man-made systems, is also useful for electric grids & microgrids, but is a technical and economic challenge.  Storage becomes more important ...

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DCO Energy LLC (DCO) owns and operates a District Energy System serving the Montclair State University Campus (MSU).  The system include a 6 MW CHCP Facility. DCO and MSU ...

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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratories partnered with Johnson Controls to deploy the company's BlueStream™ Hybrid Cooling System at NREL’s ...