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Waste heat from a 1400 Horsepower Waukesha 7042 Reciprocating Engine Provides Distributed Generation and Offsets Local Electric Loads

Cessford, Alberta, Canada. ConocoPhillips has installed two ElectraTherm Organic Rankin Cycle (ORC), Green Machine waste heat-to-power generators at their Cessford gas compression station. The two Green Machine 4400s, produce electrical output up to 65kWe each and run in parallel off the waste heat from a Waukesha 7042 natural gas engine. The waste heat generates approximately 90kWe gross of fuel-free, emission free electricity at the site. The Green Machines were installed in the first quarter of 2014 and have each exceeded 2,000 hours of run time to date. They are remotely monitored from ElectraTherm’s headquarters in Reno, NV 1,200 miles away. These Green Machines are the first commercial ORC units to receive a Canadian Registration Number (CRN) and be approved by the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) for Canadian deployments.

Exhaust heat from the natural gas engine is converted to hot water and added to the jacket water heat through an engine glycol cooling loop combined with an Aprovis exhaust gas heat exchanger. The waste heat enters each Green Machine at 230°F (110°C) and 180 GPM (11 l/s), where it’s converted into usable on-site power. This specific site was retrofitted into an existing compressor using an engine driven radiator/gas cooling system.

Future deployments of the ORC system will be configured to replace the existing radiator/gas cooling system with the Green Machine and its dedicated electrical cooling system. This frees up engine horsepower for added compression and provides power for local loads while eliminating the CapX of a conventional engine radiator. “The ORC system simply becomes a power producing radiator with a payback”, said Loy Sneary, CEO of Gulf Coast Green Energy, the first distributor of the Green Machine. “We have been working with several O&G companies that are considering installing Green Machines for energy efficiency and optimization. Now that CP has contracted with ElectraTherm to install these units we believe other O&G companies will do the same”.

The ElectraTherm Green Machine generates fuel-free, emission-free power from low temperature waste heat on applications including internal combustion engines, biomass, geothermal/co-produced fluids and solar thermal. The ElectraTherm Green Machine fleet has accrued more than 220,000 hours (25 years+) of runtime to date. A list of reference sites is currently available on the website.

About Gulf Coast Green Energy: GCGE is a leader in small-scale, distributed power generation from waste heat and is the first and oldest distributor for the ElectraTherm Green Machine, please visit us at www.gulfcoastgreenenergy.com.

ElectraTherm, Inc. is a renewable energy company headquartered in Reno, Nevada. ElectraTherm’s product, the Green Machine, generates fuel-free, emission-free power from low temperature waste heat using the ORC and patented technology. The Green Machines are modular, robust power generators with an attractive return on investment. For more information on ElectraTherm and its clean energy products, please visit www.electratherm.com.

GCGE Announces new Caribbean Alliance

 Bay City, Texas-Gulf Coast Green Energy (GCGE), leader in waste heat to power (WHP) generation, announces that it has teamed up with Island Services Group, LLC (ISG). ISG is a Virgin Islands and Caribbean resource firm whose focus is to provide quality products and services to commercial, municipal, industrial and utility clients and users.  “We are pleased that ISG has agreed to represent GCGE in the Caribbean. Kimberly McCollum, ISG founder, is not only a talented electrical engineer, with a wealth of experience in the electrical and energy efficiency industry, she is well known throughout the Islands as a resourceful professional with great integrity” said Loy Sneary, GCGE President/CEO. “While touring potential sites in the V.I. for our WHP generators with Kimberly, it was immediately obvious that she has gained tremendous respect from business, industry, government, and civic organizations. She shares our values of honesty, integrity, and confidence, and we are fortunate to be Teamed up with her.”

 ISG recently announced that they now offer electrical contractor services. “This is a real benefit to GCGE because we will also be able to team up with ISG for the installations of our waste heat to power generators”, said Sneary. ISG has also recently gained VIenergize Services Network (VISN) certification. VISN is an emerging network of energy professionals and includes licensed engineers, architects, contractors and financiers who possess the skills and ethics necessary to implement quality cost-effective energy and water projects in the territory. “To be included in VISN is an honor because it means ISG meets the standards set by The Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority’s certification process,” said Kimberly McCollum, ISG founder. “The value of VISN for consumers is that they are now empowered by having an available network of qualified professionals from which to select the best provider to help them conserve energy and lower their utility bills,” said McCollum.

VISN was established in 2013 with assistance from the U.S. Department of the Interior whose mission is to provide consumers with resources which will assist in reducing their energy and water consumption.  The intent of VIenergize Services is to offer additional support to the clean energy strategy goal of meeting 60% of the territory’s energy needs through clean energy by 2025.

For more information about GCGE in the Caribbean, contact:

Kimberly M. McCollum, BSEE                            or                                 Loy Sneary, President/CEO

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Tampa, Florida – Gulf Coast Green Energy (GCGE) has just installed a Green Machine in Florida that will generate green energy from solar with a WHP generator.  GCGE was is the first to generate electricity from a solar thermal field using a Waste Heat to Power (WHP) generator, The Green Machine, on the Island of Cyprus on the campus of Middle Eastern Technical University. Then in 2013 GCGE successfully installed and commissioned a Green Machine at the University of Louisiana Lafayette. The most recent installation was at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida. The site will utilizes thermal energy collected from five rows of Solar Collector Assemblies (SCAs) to heat water, which is fed directly into the Green Machine. Funding for the project was provided by the University of South Florida Foundation.

The Green Machine generates power which will be delivered to the University’s main bus by harnessing hot water in the solar collection troughs. Water heated in the solar array is pumped to the Green Machine to heat a working fluid that, under pressure, rotates the Green Machines twin screw expander to generate electricity. The working fluid is then condensed by a water cooling tower to begin the process again in a closed loop cycle. The Green Machine generates 35-65 kWe depending on local weather conditions.  

Currently, the Green Machine is operational and awaiting retrofits to the array. The primary purpose of the project is to provide thermodynamic and mechanical engineering research, according to Dr. Yogi Goswami, Distinguished Professor of Energy Conservation, Hydrogen Energy and Fuel Cells, Thermodynamics and Director of USF’s Clean Energy Research Center (CERC) and Heat Transfer. The project will be operational during research activities, however, USF looks to operate the Green Machine more consistently while investigating methods to increase efficiency and optimize the project.

Gulf Coast Green Energy is a leader in small-scale, distributed power generation from waste heat and is a Distributor for the ElectraTherm Green Machine, please visit us at www.gulfcoastgreenenergy.com

Crowley, Louisiana – Gulf Coast Green Energy (GCGE), a leader in small-scale, distributed power generation from waste heat, commissioned an ElectraTherm Green Machine Waste Heat-to-Power generator for the University of Louisiana, Lafayette. Cleco Power LLC (Cleco) purchased the Green Machine and associated equipment and donated it to the university to demonstrate the  versatility of the Green Machine. The location is the Cleco Alternative Energy Center on the University of Louisiana at Lafayette Energy Research Complex, near Lafayette. The site utilizes thermal energy collected from two parabolic Solar Collector Assemblies (SCAs) to heat water, which is fed directly into the Green Machine. Gossamer Space Frames supplied the solar thermal array which uses 3M Solar Mirror Film which was also purchased by Cleco and donated to the university.

The Green Machine generates power at the Cleco Alternative Energy Center by harnessing hot water in solar collection panels.  Water heated int he solar array is pumped to the Green Machine to heat a working fluid that, under pressure, rotates the Green Machine’s twin screw expander to generate electricity.  The working fluid is then condensed by a water cooling tower to begin the process again in the closed loop cycle.  The green Machin generates 15-50 kWe dependin on local weather conditions.  For larger applications, the Green Machine generates up to 110 kWe.

“Our experience with the Green Machine has been successful, generating power output from the solar collectors on site over a wide range of operating conditions,” said Jonathan Raush, Senior Research Scientist for the project at University of Louisiana. “We look forward to learning more about Organic Rankine Cycle technology in tandem with solar thermal energy through our ongoing work with ElectraTherm’s Green Machine.”

The demonstration was partially funded by a grant from Louisiana Department of Natural Resources’ Empower Louisiana Renewable Energy Grant Program in order to study and develop alternative energy technologies using renewable energy sources. Cleco provides support for ongoing operation of the facility, and UL Lafayette operates the solar thermal field, including running the Green Machine.

Currently, the demonstration project is operational with a primary focus on the solar arrays, while the Green Machine runs on an as needed basis. However, the Cleco Alternative Energy Center looks to operate the Green Machine more consistently while investigating methods to increase efficiency and optimize the project. “We look forward to the opportunity to generate even more power from the new 110 kWe Green Machine”, Raush said.

About Gulf Coast Green Energy.

Gulf Coast Green Energy (GCGE) is the Distributor for the Green Machine for the Gulf Coast States and other areas of the U.s. and Caribbean. GCGE placed the first Green Machine in a commercial application at the Facilities Department at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 2008. Since then, GCGE and ElectraTherm have pioneered the internal combustion engine (ICE) application for the technology and GCGE installed the first ICE application on a natural gas compressor ICE in 2011. GCGE and ElectraTherm also were the first to generate power from hot “produced water” from an oil well, and they were the first to apply the technology to a solar thermal array. In its distributor role, GCGE identifies projects and provides sales, service, and installation support for the technology. GCGE was formed in 2007 and has successfully completed projects for the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Energy, and three universities in Europe and the U.S. www.gulfcoastgreenenergy.com

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Gulf Coast Green Energy has been invited to participate in the White House Executive Order meeting of the Southeast Industrial Energy Efficiency & Combined Heat and Power Regional Dialogue Meeting in Little Rock, Arkansas on January 24, 2013 hosted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office in coordination with the State and Local Energy Efficiency Action Network and the Industrial Energy Efficiency Network.

The dialogue meeting will focus on developing and implementing State best practice policies and investment models that address the multiple barriers to greater investment in industrial energy efficiency Waste Heat to Power (WHP) and Combined Heat and Power (CHP).

This Southeast Dialogue Meeting will help meet objectives outlined in the August 30, 2012 Executive Order (EO) – Accelerating Investment in Industrial Energy Efficiency that sets a goal of 40 gigawatt of new, cost-effective industrial CHP capacity in the U.S. by the end of 2020. This Executive Order also directs the agencies, including DOE, with convening stakeholders, through a series of public workshops, to develop and encourage the use of best practice State policies and investment models that address the multiple barriers to investment in industrial energy efficiency Waste Heat to Power (WHP) and CHP. Participants at the meeting will engage in a dialogue about the potential for increased industrial energy efficiency in the southeast region of the United States, successful industrial WHP and CHP policy approaches, innovative policy options, and opportunities to work together to achieve the many benefits of industrial WHP energy efficiency and CHP.

Gulf Coast Green Energy has also been invited to meet on January 23, 2013 with the Arkansas PSC and the Arkansas Energy Office, a division of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. The meeting will focus on industrial energy efficiency through new Waste Heat to Power technologies and CHP. The meeting is hosted by the Executive Director of the Arkansas Public Service Commission (APSC) and the Director of the Arkansas Energy Office (AEO)

In addition to Gulf Coast Green Energy, others invited to attend are representatives of: The Alliance for Industrial Efficiency/ David Gardiner and Associates; Advanced Energy Economy, Arkansas; The Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractor’s National Association; The Center for Clean Air Policy; The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Loy Sneary, President and CEO of Gulf Coast Green Energy (GCGE) will represent GCGE at both meetings.

For more information contact:

Kimberly M. McCollum, BSEE

              Or

www.gulfcoastgreenenergy.com

Website for the Southeast Industrial Energy Efficiency & Combined Heat and Power Regional Dialogue Meeting:

http://www1.eere.energy.gov/manufacturing/newsandevents/events_detail.html?event_id=7304&utm_source=Heat+is+Power+Members&utm_campaign=e753f79539-September_Newsletter_for_Members9_11_2012&utm_medium=email