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Benefits Onsite Powern Generation

Distributed generation or Onsite power generation offers several benefits for businesses and individuals. Onsite power generation
offers cost savings, improved reliability, energy efficiency, environmental benefits, and greater control over energy supply.

Cost savings

Onsite power generation can lead to significant cost savings in various ways. By generating their own electricity, businesses and individuals can reduce or eliminate dependency on the grid, avoiding utility charges and peak-time electricity rates. Additionally, excess power generated onsite can be fed back into the grid through net metering, potentially earning credits or revenue

Enhanced reliability

Onsite power generation provides a reliable source of electricity, especially during periods of grid outages or disruptions. This ensures uninterrupted power supply to critical systems, such as emergency services, healthcare facilities, data centers, and manufacturing processes, minimizing downtime and potential financial losses

Environmental benefits

Onsite power generation utilizing renewable energy sources, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems or wind turbines, contributes to a cleaner and more sustainable energy mix. It reduces dependence on fossil fuels, minimizes greenhouse gas emissions, and helps combat climate change

Energy efficiency

Onsite power generation allows for combined heat and power (CHP) systems, also known as cogeneration. CHP systems simultaneously produce electricity and useful heat from the same fuel source, achieving high energy efficiency compared to separate generation of electricity and heat. This results in lower energy consumption and reduced greenhouse gas emissions

Applicable Fuel

Natural gas

LNG & CNG

Biogas

Wastewater/Landfill gas

Hydrogen

Associated petroleum gas

Syn gas

etc.

Who cares (application)

It is widely used in almost all spheres of industry, municipal and agriculture, as well as construction, where there is a need not only for electric energy, but also for the use of thermal energy.

Thermal energy is usually used for heating (heating hot water), steam production, and cooling (using heat in cooling units. In order to achieve maximum efficiency of the technology, it is recommended to install cogeneration equipment at the consumption facility the immediate vicinity of it.

Own cogeneration plant can work both in parallel and isolated from the power grid.

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Solution Benefits

Fast return on investment in a cogeneration plant

Profitability - significant financial savings with stable consumption of electricity and heat

Efficiency – Over 90% overall efficiency

High quality of electricity

High reliability, reduction of power supply accidents.

Quick start-up and output to rated power. Full power can be reached within a couple of minutes.

High adaptability to load changes

Container design of mini-CHP, compactness and minimum weight

Minimum commissioning time

Favorable Conditions for Own Cogeneration Power

High electricity costs

Issues with power reliability or electricity quality

Need for constant operation & heat power demand

Access to a reliable fuel source

Sustainability improvement target

How it works

The reciprocation genset consists of an engine, a generator, a control system and heat exchangers that produce electricity and heat.

The principle of operation of a cogeneration plant: gaseous fuel (hydrogen, natural gas, biogas, associated petroleum gas, etc.) enters the reciprocating engine for further combustion and driving the pistons. During the generation of electrical energy in a cogeneration power plant, heat is released in parallel - this is the heat from the exhaust gases, oil and antifreeze, which cool the engine. Heat is removed using a set of heat exchangers. Thus, in the process of cogeneration, thermal energy is used as efficiently as possible.

Generating electricity and heat is not the only possible use for reciprocating engines. A cogeneration power plant is also an opportunity to obtain cold (tri-generation) and produce CO2 for greenhouses.