Commercial and Industrial Facilities

Tecogen cogeneration and cooling CHP products are a proven way for commercial and industrial facilities to reduce their operating costs and carbon footprints significantly, and maximize overall efficiency.

Commercial and industrial facilities are often large with around-the-clock operations, steady thermal and electric requirements, and central plants. This makes them ideal candidates for CHP. Best industrial applications include pharmaceutical, electronics manufacturing, metal finishing, plastics, bottling, industrial office parks, warehouses, and food processing facilities. Best commercial applications include hotels, data centers, shopping centers, and office buildings with high occupancy and consistent requirements for heating and/or cooling.

The “Microgrid” feature of Tecogen’s InVerde product is particularly valued in commercial and industrial facilities, because it can be easily configured to provide convenience power during an outage, keeping important services operating until the utility grid is restored.

• Economic Benefits
• System Options
• Environmental Benefits
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Economic Benefits

Operating savings to a commercial or industrial facility can be over 50%, year after year. Tecogen systems can help attentive industrial and commercial facility managers squeeze the most value out of limited budgets, in a very competitive world. We would be happy to provide you a detailed free economic analysis, to help you estimate the savings at your particular facility.

System Options

Tecogen will help a commercial or industrial determine which type of CHP system makes the most sense.

• Cogeneration – Either a Tecogen induction generator-based or inverter-based cogeneration system can generate electricity that reduces a facility’s electrical bill significantly. At the same time, free waste heat can be recovered from the cogeneration system and used to offset fuel that would otherwise have to be burned in the facility’s boilers or water heaters. So in addition to savings on the electricity bill, the gas bill for space heating, domestic hot water (DHW), and process hot water is also reduced.. Alternatively, the free waste heat can even be used to drive an absorption chiller, a device which generates cooling from a heat source, This relieving the facility’s other chillers from having to do as much of the air conditioning.

  A Tecogen InVerde module can be operated independent of the grid during power outages, keeping some, or even all of the commercial or industrial facility’s services operating for extended periods. The patented “Microgrid” operating software allows multiple InVerde modules to operate harmoniously without any specialized external controls or field balancing.

• Chiller – A TECOCHILL chiller, by comparison, provides cost-effective chilled water directly, for a commercial or industrial facility’s chilled water loop. It does this without using expensive on-peak electricity, greatly reducing the facility’s electric bill. At some facilities, free waste heat available from the engine(s) on the chiller can also be utilized, to satisfy simultaneous hot water requirements, such as for domestic hot water (DHW), space heating, or process hot water.

  TECOCHILL systems require very little electric power, so are ideally suited for keeping industrial and commercial facilities cool when the utility power has failed. In these applications, the building’s existing backup power sources need only supply electricity for the chiller’s controls and ancillary equipment, rather than for the entire chiller.

Environmental Benefits

Efficient Tecogen CHP systems can help an industrial or commercial facility reduce its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions (CO2 output, or “carbon footprint”) by as much as 50%.

Tecogen CHP systems are a good way for a commercial or industrial facility to “go green”, but in a practical, sensible way. They reduce global warming emissions, while achieving decent paybacks on their own and do not rely extensively on massive government incentives and tax benefits, like some other “green” measures do. Tecogen systems are an efficient and responsible investment of company investors’ and taxpayers’ dollars.

Marketing and Educational Benefits

Tecogen systems can even provide educational benefits in commercial and industrial facilities. The technology itself can be closely monitored and studied so that the environmental and economic benefits can be quantified and tracked by operating personnel and management alike, on a “real-time” basis. With Tecogen CHP, commercial and industrial facilities can be justifiably proud of their green accomplishments.

Please check out our list of cogen and chiller case studies and find out how facilities similar to yours are benefitting from Tecogen.