http://www.nyserda.org/Press_Releases/2010/PressReleas20100422.asp
Saint Elizabeth Medical Center, Utica has been awarded $2 million by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to design and install a co-generation system that will save the hospital nearly $800,000 every year while significantly cutting its energy use and providing additional secure backup for critical hospital operations. In addition, the system will showcase an emerging practice that will allow the hospital to obtain revenues by selling power back to the power grid.
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The highly efficient on-site co-generation system will allow St. Elizabeth each year to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 900 tons, reduce energy costs by $690,000, and provide revenues of $107,000 for energy the hospital will supply back to the power grid. The system, (called Combined Heat and Power (CHP) or co-generation), increases efficiency by capturing and using the waste heat in the day-to-day operations of the hospital. The hospital will not be affected during grid-power interruptions.
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A sophisticated tracking system developed by Intelligent Energy Solutions (IES) the project developer will monitor both the hospital’s energy operations and energy pricing to allow St. Elizabeth’s to determine the economics of generating their own power vs. purchasing power through the electric grid and also when economics would dictate producing excess power and selling it back to the utility. Four years worth of hourly performance data will be collected by NYSERDA and shared with other entities to help them improve their energy planning.
NYSERDA provided $1 million to Faxton-St. Lukes Healthcare/Utica College to install a similar CHP system which was commissioned in July 2009 and has helped those institutions reduce energy costs by $800,000 per year.
According to Faxton-St.Lukes (http://faxtonstlukes.com/category/categories/about) that 3.6 megawawat system cost $15 million.
New York State Energy Research and Demonstration Authority www.nyserda.org
Press Release dated April 22, 2010
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