Princeton's Cogeneration Plant Posted March 22, 2012; 12:00 p.m.
Edward "Ted" Borer, the University's energy plant manager, gives
a tour of Princeton's cogeneration plant and talks about energy
efficiency on campus. Read more. Video Closed Captions The
cogeneration plant is really the heart of our district energy
system and I think that an important thing understand is that if
we have a hundred and fifty buildings that we're there's maybe
twelve thousand people on our campus as the daytime population.
Normally, without the cogeneration plant we'd need a hundred and
fifty boilers and a hundred and fifty air-conditioning With the
central energy plant and district energy I'm able to have and
eight chillers instead of one in each building. There's three
major pieces to the energy complex. The furthest is the cogen
plant. That's where we make all our steam and electricity. The
middle section is the chilled water plant that's where we make
chilled water for the immediate cooling needs of the campus. And
then the gl