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.
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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