Microgrids and Energy-as-a-Service

 Energy as a Service enables the efficient utilization of resources and assets by helping customers modify energy consumption with time-of-use and real-time pricing.

microgrid systems with equipment re-use re-manufacturing and redeployment

A client-centric approach that reduces energy consumption and costs in collaboration with local utilities and service providers. EaaS:

o   requires no money down or investments by the project beneficiaries

o   includes equipment and components life cycle management and after sales services

o   offers local and regional employment opportunities as well as contracting opportunities

o   features environment friendly services

o   utilizes performance-based payment systems and client discounts

Utilities are project(s) participants. Clients own plant and equipment after 5 years

Distributed Generation occurs on a property site when energy is sold to the building occupants; Power Purchase Agreements - PPAs - enable businesses and governments to purchase electricity directly from the generator rather than from the utility. 

PPAs are a legal contract between an electricity generator and a power purchaser

Microgrids are electric grids that manage energy and ensure reliable delivery. A self-sufficient, energy plant, the microgrid serves a specific geographic area, neighborhood, and community with distributed energy resources - solar, wind, CHP, other - energy storage, as well as electric vehicle charging stations. Interconnected to nearby buildings, the microgrid provides electricity, heating, and cooling.

community-friendly microgrids: a cheaper alternative in infrastructure development

As-a-Service Models work particularly well for capital-intensive energy projects; EaaS shifts long-term capital expenditures into a short-term operational expense.

EaaS secures microgrid benefits without risk. The microgrid can serve as the primary source of electrical power, as the emergency backup source of power in the event of a grid outage as it captures reduced energy consumption and utility bills, and sells surplus electricity to the local grid operator. 

 

Local Energy Markets

 Energy as a Service EaaS

for Communities Businesses and Properties

Energy Savings solutions for your community business and property that enable the efficient utilization of resources with Pay per Use, On-Demand Services, micro grids, Distributed Energy Resources Management Systems - DERMS, combined Heat and power - CHP, energy service agreements – ESA, power purchase agreements – PPA, and Virtual Power Plants – VPP.

Delivering Value for Paying Customers and Efficiency for Suppliers

Virtual Power Plants - VPP - are networks of energy producers, consumers and storage providers in your Local Energy Market - LEM. LEMs are aggregators that generate value by monitoring, predicting, optimizing and dispatching energy consumption and generation.

Benefits in collaboration with similar VPPs, LEMs trade energy with each other as demand requires; participants benefit from management of their consumption with purchases effected at low-cost times as the LEM continuously balance electric grids and integration with utilities.

LEMs function as independent electric companies tasked with reducing demand during times of higher energy costs by managing the distributed network flows across communities and regions.

Participation in a Local Energy Market is open to energy consumers, producers and storage facilities.

Distributed Generation occurs on a property site when energy is sold to the building occupants; here, commercial PPAs enable businesses and governments to purchase electricity directly from the generator rather than from the utility.

Power Purchase Agreements PPA are a legal contract between an electricity generator and a power purchaser.

Projects and Transactions

with Pay per Use On-Demand Services

Arezza develops projects utilizing Pay x Use transactions that are implemented via BOT Projects specific to your community; local businesses participate as partners and/or suppliers. Our focus is in the areas of travel, transportation, energy efficiency, conservation and manufacturing. Small and medium sized businesses, especially those located in rural and smaller urban communities, can increase their sales and capabilities with local and regional collaborations and partnerships.

Shared Mobility and Travel Related Services

Consumers increasingly prefer usership to ownership by utilizing pay-per-use and other on-demand services, as scalable and resilient value-driven outcomes such as pay-per-mile become available.

Corriera is a shared mobility service that connects larger cities with air and rail service to smaller towns to benefit time-sensitive business travelers, vacationing families and groups as well as long distance commuters. Transit Logistics specializes in intercity and regional cargo and other logistics management services in support of manufacturing and energy projects. 

Reduce Transit Times and Travel Costs with Pay-per-Use

Communities that rely on connections and collaborations within and among regions have access to technologies to transition from a sale to a service culture that features pay-by-outcome in travel service and destination management. Knowledge Tourism is an all-inclusive per diem travel service for vacations and business trips; it brings together local customs, values and traditions with expertise in a variety of disciplines to learn, experience and expand knowledge of the territory. Prices are a function of group and family size; the terms of service spell out what is included with your daily rate.

knowledge tourism in the knowledge economy

Energy and Manufacturing and Services

The Traditional make, use and dispose economy is supplanted by a circular one in which resources have a longer useful life, with product and materials recovery at the end of life cycle. End to end providers are replaced by multiple product and service offerors with unique expertise in the provision of customer-centric rather than asset-centric services.

Manufacturing life cycle programs increase competitive edge, equipment and components resiliency at a reduced cost-per-use to benefit clients and suppliers alike; objectives are achieved with proactive marketing and sales efforts as well as after sales and maintenance services programs.

Volt Logistics integrates transaction-based energy services and controls with Energy Fees designed around a pay per kWh program, long-term equipment and maintenance leases of CHP and demand-energy-response DER systems. Suppliers provide long-term maintenance and parts replacement programs with equipment re-use, re-manufacturing and redeployment.

collaborative systems that deliver seamless customer experiences

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CHP Combined Heat and Power FAQs

Combined Heat and Power: Frequently Asked Questions FAQs

What is combined heat and power (CHP)?  An efficient and clean approach to generating electric power and useful thermal energy from a single fuel source. CHP is used either to replace or supplement conventional separate heat and power (SHP). Instead of purchasing electricity from the local utility and burning fuel in an on-site furnace or boiler to produce thermal energy, an industrial or commercial facility can use CHP to provide both energy services in one energy-efficient step.

How Does CHP Work?

o   CHP involves the recovery of otherwise-wasted thermal energy to produce useful thermal energy or electricity, configured either as a topping or bottoming cycle.

o   In a typical topping cycle system, fuel is combusted in a prime mover such as a gas turbine or reciprocating engine to generate electricity. Energy normally lost in the prime mover’s hot exhaust and cooling systems is instead recovered to provide heat for industrial processes, hot water, or for space heating, cooling, and dehumidification.

o   In a bottoming cycle system, also referred to as “waste heat recovery,” fuel is combusted to provide thermal input to a furnace or other industrial process and heat rejected from the process is then used for electricity production.

Why is CHP more efficient than conventional electricity generation? CHP is a form of distributed generation, which is located at or near the energy-consuming facility, whereas conventional generation takes place in large centrally-located power plants. CHP’s higher efficiency comes from recovering the heat normally lost in power generation or industrial processes to provide heating or cooling on site, or to generate additional electricity. CHP’s inherent higher efficiency and elimination of transmission and distribution losses from the central power plant results in reduced primary energy use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Is CHP widely used in the United States?

·         The existing 82 GW of CHP capacity at almost 3,600 facilities represents 8 percent of current U.S. generating capacity and 12 percent of total electricity generated.

·         CHP is used in every state, and is primarily found in areas with high concentrations of industrial and commercial activity, high electricity prices, and policies favorable to CHP.

What kinds of facilities use CHP?  
CHP can be utilized in a variety of applications that have significant electric and thermal loads. Eighty-eight percent of existing CHP capacity is found in industrial applications, providing electricity and steam to energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, paper, refining, food processing, and metals manufacturing. CHP in commercial and institutional applications is currently 12 percent of existing capacity, providing electricity, steam, and hot water to hospitals, schools, university campuses, hotels, nursing homes, office buildings and apartment complexes.

 

What are the benefits of CHP for the energy user?

Ø  CHP reduces energy costs for the user.

Ø  CHP reduces the risk of electric grid disruptions and enhances energy reliability for the user. This is particularly useful for hospitals, research institutions, or industrial facilities where electric power outages are particularly disruptive and costly.

Ø  CHP provides predictability in the face of uncertain electricity prices.

What are the benefits of CHP for Your Community?

o   CHP reduces emissions of GHGs and other air pollutants by as much as 40 percent or more.

o   CHP consumes essentially zero water resources in generating electricity (a typical coal fired power plant consumes 0.2 to 0.6 gallons of water per kWh).

o   CHP offers a low-cost approach to adding new electricity generation capacity.

o   On-site electric generation reduces grid congestion and improves the reliability of the electricity distribution system.

o   CHP defers the need for investments in new central generating plants, transmission and distribution infrastructure, helping to minimize increases in electricity costs.

o   CHP uses highly-skilled local labor and technology.

Creating Self-Sufficient Communities Food Production Energy Efficiency and Resilient Neighborhoods

Off-grid Neighborhoods with renewable energy capabilities, water management and waste-to-resource systems generating surplus energy, water and food that enable self-reliant and resilient neighborhoods in your community.

Self-sufficient Neighborhoods with indoor vegetable, outdoor seasonal gardens and high-tech vertical farms, composted household waste generate their own energy from using a mixture of geothermal, solar, solar thermal, wind, and biomass distributed by a smart grid as well as a biogas plant will turn any non-compostable household waste into power and water.

Integrated Neighborhoods with High-yield Organic Food Production

Advanced Methods for Growing Food such as aquaponics, permaculture, food forests, and high-yield organic farming, grow more food with 90% less water. Organic food from vegetables, fruits, nuts, legumes, fish, eggs and chicken year round long as supplementing seasonal gardens fertilized by livestock waste.

Combined Heat and Power involves the recovery of otherwise-wasted thermal energy to produce useful thermal energy or electricity, configured either as a topping or bottoming cycle. It is a form of distributed generation, which is located at or near the energy-consuming facility, whereas conventional generation takes place in large centrally-located power plants. CHP’s inherent higher efficiency and elimination of transmission and distribution losses from the central power plant results in reduced primary energy use and lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Lower Energy Costs Reduced Emissions Secure and Resilient Energy Supply

CHP can be utilized in a variety of applications that have significant electric and thermal loads. Eighty-eight percent of existing CHP capacity is found in industrial applications, providing electricity and steam to energy-intensive industries such as chemicals, paper, refining, food processing, and metals manufacturing. CHP in commercial and institutional applications is currently 12 percent of existing capacity, providing electricity, steam, and hot water to hospitals, schools, university campuses, hotels, nursing homes, office buildings and apartment complexes.

Benefits to Your Community CHP reduces emissions of GHGs and other air pollutants by as much as 40 percent or more. It consumes essentially zero water resources in generating electricity and offers a low-cost approach to adding new electricity generation capacity. On-site electric generation reduces grid congestion and improves the reliability of the electricity distribution system and defers the need for investments in new central generating plants, transmission and distribution infrastructure, helping to minimize increases in electricity costs.

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