; ; ANNUAL Campus Energy CONFERENCE
View of the opening plenary panel discussion audience. This year’s Campus Energy Conference attracted 651 registrants.
a similar impact and took down tree
limbs and wires, but university power
remained on line, and UNC was able
to provide sanctuary services to citizens in the community.
• The Hon. Stephen Ayers, Architect of
the Capitol, confirmed that reliability
is paramount to the customers served
by the Capitol Power Plant, which provides steam and chilled-water service
to many of the most famous buildings
in the U.S., including the U.S. Capitol,
the Supreme Court and all the Senate
and House office buildings.
• Kathleen Hogan of the U.S. Department
of Energy noted that her agency considers CHP a strategy to strengthen the
electricity grid while achieving higher
overall energy efficiencies.
• Sarah Dunham from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said that
with projected retirement of coal
plants, district energy/CHP can provide a competitive capacity replacement option that is cleaner, more
efficient and more widely distributed.
• Tom Hicks, U.S. Navy, said that the
Navy’s energy strategy relative to
military bases includes reducing
reliance on the commercial electricity
grid and moving to more sustainable
fuel resources, such as biofuels and
energy from waste. He also noted
that district energy/CHP can play a
role in more sustainable base
operations.
Preconference Workshops
The preconference distribution
workshop focused on system safety,
with presentations on new installations, ultrasonic and infrared monitoring techniques for predictive and
preventive maintenance, post-event
analyses of near-miss accidents, how
to handle OSHA accident inquiries and
the imperative of disaster planning.
Richard Boscarino of Consolidated
Edison Steam Operations and IDEA
Chair Vincent Badali of Veolia Energy
North America addressed the workshop to launch a pioneering national
plan for Mutual Aid for District Energy
(MADE) systems, modeled on similar
emergency cooperative agreements
implemented by communications and
gas and electric utilities. Boscarino
explained that MADE would establish
assistance agreements among district
energy agencies, organizations and
jurisdictions that contain a mechanism
to quickly deploy emergency assistance
in the form of personnel, equipment,
materials and other associated services
during emergencies. IDEA is working with Badali, Boscarino, Pat Davin
of Veolia Energy North America, Juan
Ontiveros of The University of Texas
at Austin and others who have come
forward since the Campus Energy
Conference to help bring the MADE
concept into reality.
At the preconference business
development workshop, IDEA’s Michelle
Parks reviewed progress in the collaboration with Michael King of the U.K.’s
Combined Heat & Power Association to
produce an authoritative Community
Energy Development Guide. The guide
would serve as a planning asset for U.S.
community leaders, real estate developers and economic development officials
seeking direction with early-stage district
energy projects. The published work is
scheduled to be released at IDEA’s 103rd
Annual Conference in Chicago, Ill., June
29-July 2, 2012.
Heard at the distribution
workshop:
“I learned a lot of what I
know by coming to these
workshops and listening to
these guys.”
—Pat Davin,
Veolia Energy North America
(left): The distribution workshop was attended by 104 registrants. (right): Richard Boscarino of
Consolidated Edison introduced the Mutual Aid for District Energy program to the distribution
workshop.
