Energy plant earns award for reducing pollution, improving
efficiency Posted March 6, 2007; 08:25 a.m. Princeton
University's energy plant has received a 2007 Energy Star CHP
Award from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S.
Department of Energy for its efforts to reduce pollution and
improve energy efficiency. CHP stands for combined heat and
power -- also known as cogeneration -- an efficient, clean and
reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a
single fuel source. CHP is not a specific technology but an
application of technologies to meet an energy user's needs. In
1996, Princeton installed a natural gas-fired CHP system to
support the University's electricity, heating and cooling, and
research needs. The University's energy plant produces all of
the steam and chilled water and approximately half of the
electric power used by the campus. The plant runs 24 hours a
day, seven days a week, 365 days a year and includes a state-of-
the-art real-time economic dispatch system to