DOE announced on November 3 its award of more than $155 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to 41 industrial energy efficiency projects across the country. The nine largest projects, totaling $150 million and leveraged with $634 million in private industry support, will promote the use of combined heat and power, district energy systems, waste energy recovery systems, and energy efficiency initiatives in hospitals, utilities, and industrial sites.
Texas Medical Center Central Heating and Cooling Services Company was awarded $10,000,000 to build a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) facility at its existing district heating plant, serving the largest medical center in the world. The CHP system will increase electric and thermal efficiency, provide steam to the campus, and improve the overall reliability of the existing plant, enabling continued operations even in the event of a grid outage. The new CHP plant will generate 45 MW of power and provide steam to the district heating plant. The project will save an estimated 0.75 trillion Btu annually over separate electrical and steam generation.
$132,000 was the total DOE funding awarded to Texas A&M University for an industrial assessment center.
The complete press release can be viewed at: http://www.energy.gov/news2009/8255.htm