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Morristown Medical Center is located at 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ 07960. It is a 700+ bed regional trauma center and has been the top ranked hospital in New Jersey for the past four years. The initial goal of switching to CHP was to have reliable electricity for the hospital at all times. This developed into a state-of-the-art cogeneration plant and now provides the hospital with reliability that they have never had before.

St. Joseph`s Hospital Health Center is a 451 bed hospital in Syracuse, NY. In 2009, St. Joseph`s began a $220 million expansion, including a new surgical tower, new emergency services building, an emergency psychiatric program, and an energy-efficient data center. Completed in 2015, the expansion meets LEED Gold certification, the second-highest LEED tier. The expansion incorporated maximization of natural light, recycled building materials with low or no volatile organic compounds emissions,

Albany Medical Center in downtown Albany, NY encompasses the 651-bed Albany Medical Center Hospital, as well as the 550-student Albany Medical College. It is a Level-I Trauma center, and the only academic health sciences center in Northeastern New York State. In 2013, Albany Medical Center underwent a $330 million expansion of the Medical Center Hospital. Not only does the expansion allow for state-of-the-art services, it also allowed Albany Medical Center to become the first hospital in the

Medical Center Improves Reliability with Natural Gas-Fired Cogeneration Plant. Faced with the need to replace 50-year-old natural gas steam boilers with costly new ones, a major university medical center instead invested in a cogeneration facility that generates nearly all its electricity and creates low-cost steam as a byproduct.

Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center, formerly known as University of Princeton Medical Center at Plainsboro, is one of the most advanced
healthcare institutions in the nation. Established in 1919, the hospital moved from Princeton, NJ to a new $522 million, 636,000-square foot
facility in Plainsboro, NJ in 2012. The new facility houses 231 single-bed rooms, an attached medical office building, education center, and skilled nursing facility. Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center

Penn State Hershey Medical Center was established in 1963 on a 550-acre campus and has 548 licensed beds. Penn State Hershey Medical Center is known as the premier provider of medical care in the central Pennsylvania area, recognized as the number four hospital in the state and home to PA’s only medical facility accredited as both an adult and pediatric Level 1 Trauma Center. Demonstrating their commitment to both top notch patient care and sustainability, the medical center invest

On the windy high plains in the Western USA, a major petroleum company has been contributing to the U.S. energy landscape with their 420 MMSCFD cryogenic gas processing train to process raw natural gas. For the critical service of residue/sales gas compression for this process, the customer`s project team selected two Titan 130 compressor sets from Solar Turbines.

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LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois
PRIME MOVER:
(1) Solar Centaur 40TM Natural Gas Turbine
GENERATING CAPACITY: 3,419 kW
HEAT RECOVERY EQUIPMENT:
(1) Kentube Heat Recovery Steam Generator
50,000/15,000 lbs/hr (fired/unfired)
(1) 800 ton Absorption Chiller
HEAT RECOVERY APPLICATION: Building Heat, Absorption Cooling
IMPLEMENTATION COST: $12.5 million (energy center & CHP system)
TOTAL ENERGY AND OPERATION SA

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LOCATION: Rochester, Minnesota
MARKET SECTOR: Healthcare
FACILITY SIZE:
3 Million Square Feet, 960 Licensed Beds
FACILITY PEAK LOADS:
Electric: 12.0 Megawatts
Heating: 130,000 lb/hr Steam
Cooling: 7,500 Tons
TOTAL CHP GENERATING CAPACITY: 7.75 Megawatts
HEAT RECOVERY RATE: 24,000 lb/hr of 250 psig Steam
HEAT RECOVERY UTILIZATION: Building heating or cooling, medical equipment sterilization, additional el

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LOCATION: San Diego, CA
MARKET SECTOR: Hospital
FACILITY SIZE: 1,030,000 square feet
FACILITY PEAK LOAD: 6.8 MW
EQUIPMENT: 4.6 MW Solar Turbines
Mercury™ 50 gas turbine, absorption chiller
FUEL: Natural Gas
USE OF THERMAL ENERGY: Space and
autoclave heating, absorption chilling
and domestic hot water
CHP TOTAL EFFICIENCY: 64%
ENVIRONMENTAL BENEFITS: Less than 5ppm NOx
TOTAL PROJECT COST: