And combined heat and power, which allows companies and householders to use the heat created by power generation as well as the electricity it produces, is booming.
Recycling energy falls under the category of combined heat and power, which generates and uses both electricity and thermal heat-a technology that is now eligible to receive 10 percent investment tax credits from the U.S. government.
Unlike conventional combined heat and power (CHP) applications, micro-CHP produces relatively small amounts of heat and electricity.
Combined heat and power (CHP) systems have long been used to generate electricity and use the waste heat for other purposes, especially for industrial processes.
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For example, conventional CHP systems commonly produce enough heat and power for large, mulit-buildings hospitals.
There are thousands of people in the city and outside without heat, power, and clean water.
Americans are increasingly relying more on natural gas and renewable energy for heat, power and transportation.
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Instead, it proposed to develop alternative, non-nuclear, sources of heat and power to replace them.
This kind of combined heat and power might enable more people to declare independence from the grid.
By contrast, micro-CHP systems are typically sized to produce heat and power for a modestly sized home.
Not just for heat and power generation, but as a key transportation fuel.
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S. Our hearts go out to people and entire companies that are still without heat, power and four walls.
This is equally as important as raw speed, because heat and power consumption have a direct impact on performance and battery life.
The witnesses include experts from the Institution of Engineering and Technology, the UK Energy Research Centre, and the Combined Heat and Power Association.
"Our boilers and combined heat and power turbine are over 20 years old now and like anything else it wears out, " he said.
So computer architects and researchers are working on new ways to bring PC heat and power consumption down--and improve performance in the process.
Syed Ahmed, head of research at the Combined Heat and Power Association (CHPA), said the action plan failed to address a number of concerns.
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In 2001, the Alliance to Save Energy picked awarded Pataki its most prestigious annual prize for leadership in energy efficiency and combined heat and power.
To that end, President Obama signed an executive order in August that calls for increasing combined heat and power by 50 percent by 2020.
Say, LED bulbs, combined heat and power boilers, fuel cells, whatever.
So I focus on three main areas: shelter, heat and power.
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Say what you will about the benefits of better light bulbs, the big show for reducing energy waste at large hospitals is clean heat and power.
"The potential for decentralised, biomass-fuelled heat and power networks is huge, and their use will contribute significantly to many of the government's energy policy goals, " Mr Ahmed added.
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The potential efficiency savings from such projects are immense, says Neal Elliott, an expert on combined heat and power (CHP) systems with the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.
Nonetheless, high levels of PM 2.5 particles are in the air due to rapid industrialization, more vehicles, coal burning for heat and power, and lax enforcement of environmental regulations.
We're also working to make sure that we can start turning things like plants and woodchips into heat, power, and biofuels, and that will create new economic opportunities for rural communities.
At Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, electrical engineering professor Dong Ha and his team are in the early stages of studying how to employ body heat to power a circuit.
In recent years, this dynamic has become especially problematic as technological advances have accelerated market penetration of customer-sited solar photovoltaics, combined heat and power and other genres of distributed generation.
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The 80% efficiency seen in combined heat and power plants, known as cogeneration plants, is ideally suited for large institutions--universities, hospitals, airports--that have extensive electricity and thermal energy demand in a concentrated area.
Supermarket giant Tesco has recently been given a green light to build Britain's first ever straw-powered Combined Heat and Power (CHP) plant to meet the electricity and heating needs of one of its distribution centres.
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