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Distributed Generation

Reducing Carbon Emissions While Providing Reliable Energy Sources


OVERVIEW

Distributed trigeneration systems can protect property owners’ assets and


operations while reducing emissions.

Trigeneration systems are:

Capable of
Resilient in the face of Immediately working efficiently
Highly efficient
extreme weather deployable with lower-carbon
fuels
Trigeneration is a technology that generates electricity
while also providing heating and cooling.

Trigeneration uses some of the heat produced


by a cogeneration plant to generate chilled
water for air conditioning or refrigeration.

How is it different than CHP? In trigeneration,


waste heat is used for both heating and cooling,
typically with an absorption chiller for the
cooling equipment.
Why invest in distributed generation?
* Buildings, many of them commercial, account for 70% of carbon
emissions in New York and other major cities.

* New tax credits in the Inflation Reduction Act can support


trigeneration deployment.
Distributed generation is non-utility scale energy generation
located at or near the site where it is consumed.
CHP can replace generation on the supply CHP can provide reliability benefits, CHP offers improved
side, with lower emissions and more ancillary services, and locational energy efficiency,
favorable economics than traditional value to transmission and ditribution resillience, and economic
power plants system benefits to end-users

Power plant generates Transmission lines Distribution lines carry electricity to


electricity carry electricity long commercial and industrial customers
distances

Traditional electric generation loses about 5% of its energy in the transmission and distribution process. On-
site distributed generation systems experience minimal losses because the energy is generated close to where
it’s used.
Who should consider distributed generation?

Universities Hotels Hospitals Labs

High-rise Mixed-use Military


Data centers
buildings buildings installations
Our electricity system was not designed to withstand many of the extreme weather
events that occur today.
Trigeneration systems reduce building emissions
while improving resiliency in the face of climate
change.

Benefits of trigeneration include:


• Ability to run nearly continuously close to the level of their maximum output.
• Reduced reliance on the electric grid.
• Ability to work with renewable resources as part of a microgrid.
• Reliable power to support rapidly increasing electrification needs.
Distributed trigeneration allow buildings to maintain energy service
during electric grid outages.
Distributed trigeneration systems are immediately deployable, enabling
emissions reductions and improved reliability in the near term.

• Properly designed trigeneration systems are 80% to 90%


efficient.

• Inverter-based systems provide for clean electricity signals


that can power sensitive electronic equipment that can be
damaged by typical generators.

• Trigeneration uses less fuel input for the same energy


output, lowering GHG emissions.

• Trigeneration systems can be used with complementary


technologies like high-efficiency electric drive and thermal
storage, to further reduce emissions.
Trigeneration systems that use
lower-carbon fuels allow for even
greater emissions reduction.

• Trigeneration systems will use lower-carbon fuels efficiently,


requiring less fuel inputs to achieve the same energy output
as other generation units.

• Fuels like biogas and RNG are already in use in trigeneration


systems, and most inverter-based reciprocating engines can
take RNG and biogas as input fuels today.

• While use of hydrogen fuel is not widespread, it could see


more extensive use as technology develops.
Renewable and net-zero carbon fuels maintain CHP’s advantage

Avoided Grid Emissions vs CHP Electric Emissions


1200
1,071 lbs CO2/MWh
1600
EPA AVERT 2021 Uniform EE
New England Carbon free grid by 2035
Grid Marginal Emissions Rate, lbs CO2/MWh

1400
1000
Carbon free grid by 2050

1200
800
1000 Natural Gas CHP Emissions
Natural Gas
equal Marginal Grid Emissions
CHP reduces Natural Gas CHP Effective Electric Emissions
600 CO2 emissions
800 (1.1 MW Recip Engine CHP)
460 lbs CO2/MWh

600
400
RNG/Natural Gas Blends
400
and Zero-Carbon Fuels
200 further reduce CHP CO2
200 emissions

0
2022 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050
Trigeneration and H.R. 5376

New Tax Incentive should Drive Trigeneration Investment

Tax Credit up to 30-50%

Zero Emission Credit Begins in 2025

Zero Emission Credit Extends to 2032

More details forthcoming on both credits


Trigeneration is a proven resilient, economically-viable
solution to reduce emissions.

Can help commercial building owners and managers reduce their GHG emissions while
maintaining reliable energy services.

Trigeneration systems:
* Run close to their maximum capacity nearly all the time;
* Have an efficiency rate of up to 90%
* Can work efficiently with low-carbon fuels like RNG and biogas.
• Are a critical part of responsible climate action.
• Are eligible for the new 30-50% tax credit.

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