Financial Benefits

Reduce your Primary Energy costs by up to 50% with the outright Capital Purchase of an Power EcoSystems Cogeneration system. Reduce your Energy bill by up to 20% without Capital Outlay through a Power EcoSystems Delayed Energy Purchase Program (DEP). Stabilise the risks associated with rapidly rising electricity prices in your business over a fixed period. Leverage Power EcoSystems expertise in locating Grant funding in certain project categories. Good quality CHP schemes can benefit from taxation advantages by qualifying for taxation benefits. Biogas fuelled systems may qualify for additonal incentives, doubling the value of the electricity produced by the co-generation plant. Provide a non capital-intensive solution for addressing strategic or maintenance issues which can include energy centre plant, infrastructure and building fabric improvements and other energy efficiency technologies. Power EcoSystems can provide a no cost no obligation Preliminary Feasibility Study for your site - simply contact our Sales Department on 403 703 7611.

Operational Benefits

Improve the security of your Electrical supply to the site by utilising the Cogeneration unit as a standby generator at times when the electricity grid fails. Improve the security of your Heat supply to the site by utilising the CHP unit as a standby boiler at times when your boilers are out of service for any reason. Limit the need for investment in replacement or new boiler plant by meeting the base load thermal requirements of your site with CHP. Eliminate the need for expensive electrical connection upgrades by displacing electrical demand directly or through an our Trigeneration system where the plant produces Electricity, Heat and Cooling simultaneously. Through its state of the art technologies and vast experience, Power EcoSystems can operate and maintain the co-generation unit over a long term, enabling you to benefit from the rewards of Cogeneration and focus on your core business. Benefit from a range of additional technologies available from within the Power EcoSystems team, optimising energy usage and reducing site fuel costs. Enhance the rating of your building.

Environmental Benefits

Contribute to the global environmental improvement by reducing fossil fuel usage. Operating Cogeneration plant at point of use to generate primary energy improves energy efficiency and reducing the quantity of greenhouse gas emissions, in particular carbon dioxide CO2. Lower SOX emissions with the use of natural gas as a fuel. The use of CHP fuelled by Biogas or Landfill gas offers significant environmental advantages. It eliminates the need to flare large amounts of Biogas containing methane, which is significantly damaging to the global environment.

Do you work in any of the following locations?

• Leisure Centres
• Hotels
• District Heating Schemes. I.e. Offices, Residential
• Hospitals
• Universities
• Military Bases
• Industrial
• Commercial
• Horticulture
• Airports
• Waste Water Treatment Works
• Municipal Buildings

Are you looking to improve your financial performance?

• Energy savings by reducing on-site costs
• Install Cogeneration without any Capital outlay
• Benefit from any Government incentives

How can CHP improve your site Performance?

Replace or augment your ageing Boiler Plant and/or also by increasing the efficiency of your LTHW system

Reducing dependency on your electricity supplier

• Black start/Standby Generation
• Security of electricity supply

Environmental Benefits

• Reduction in carbon dioxide emissions
• Elimination of Transmission losses
• Supporting your companies Green Image
• Improved fuel efficiency

Cogeneration can be installed as a retrofit to an existing build or ideally introduce Cogeneration at the Building design stage and include the above benefits to your system design.

CHP applications can be run on a variety of fuels, all of which have unique benefits.

Our Offering

We are able to use our knowledge of onsite power to provide a number of generation solutions, such as gas-fuelled generators. We take a flexible approach to our product offering and are able to provide a standard product offering as well as customized offerings to accomodate specific customer installations. We offer a wide range of products from 5 Kilowatts to 2 Megawatts. Although we do offer this wide range, we find that the following product listing satisfies 90% of our customer's needs.

Customer Tailored Service & Support

We offer a range of service packages. However, we also take a flexible approach and are able to tailor service packages to suit the installation and client's requirement. Our Service Department, supported by Cummins Western Canada, operates 24/7, 364 days per year. Our field service provision is managed by Area Managers and supported by Senior Engineers. This strong team ensures that our maintenance provision is a mix of high technical remote monitoring coupled with hands-on local management, and provides the absolute best in delivery of the maintenance service. All our engineers are fully trained and able to provide local diagnostics.

Peace of Mind

Having a large presence across a wide area enables us to route the nearest engineer to a problem, reducing downtime and improving the benefit to the customer.

Monitoring and Reporting

An integral part of every our Cogeneration system is the patented on-board control system. The system monitors and manages the CHP unit and is programmed to optimise its operation to suit the demands of the site. Every day the system automatically communicates with a Command Centre to upload recorded operating data and, in the event of a problem, takes the appropriate corrective action. Before travelling to a site an engineer can communicate with the system to assess the problem in more detail and, wherever possible, correct and restore the system remotely. Our monitoring system means that from a client's perspective, the Cogeneration unit is simply 'fit and forget'

Natural gas fuelled application

Natural gas benefits from factors, such as high heating value, attractive cost and ease of transportation and supply combined with the fact that it produces 40 to 50% less CO2, than when coal is burned to produce the same amount of energy. These characteristics make natural gas particularly suited for use in Cogeneration systems.

Biogas fuelled applications

Whilst the energy produced by a CHP system has increased energy efficiency than traditional centralized generation, it is not technically classed as a source of renewable energy unless it is fuelled by biogas. Biogas produces no net carbon emissions. Biogas fuelled Cogeneration also benefits from legal frameworks that offer additional financial incentives to companies that introduce such schemes. At Power EcoSystems we have the technology to convert natural gas fuelled engines to run on Biogas. Typically these sorts of applications are found at wastewater treatment sites that use sludge digesters (anaerobic process) to produce Biogas. The heat from the Cogeneration system is then put back into the digester, which further increases the efficiency of the system. As well as wastewater treatment sites using anaerobic digesters, there are many other applications. Whenever organic material can be broken down in a controlled environment Biogas will be produced. Such examples are from food, sugar, paper-pulp and landfill gas to name a few.

Biodiesel fuelled applications

Renewables are becoming a more viable option in new and existing buildings particularly when combined with CHP. Biodiesel CHP has the potential to be a leading renewable solution for many buildings. The biodiesel fuel is made from biomass such as vegetable oils, therefore, it is biodegradable. It is seen as 'clean energy' as when it is burned does not contribute carbon dioxide towards greenhouse gas emissions (carbon neutral). Biodiesel is not just environmentally friendly but is also a cost-competitive form of energy.

Propane applications

Quite often, there is the potential for a CHP scheme but the site has no access to mains gas, especially so for sites in remote places. In this situation, Power EcoSystems can convert a natural gas fuelled engine to run on liquid petroleum gas (LPG).

Flexible Purchase Options

Solutions can be undertaken either as a capital purchase or as a fully funded build, own, operate facility. Through a combination of flexible and competitive finance options, we are able to provide a cost effective, proven, fully integrated service. We can work with you to develop a plan that will result in immediate savings, long-term capped energy costs, and no risk.

Capital Purchase

Power EcoSystems provide customers with a fixed cost for a complete turnkey package. In addition customers can choose from one of our service contract packages and we will operate and maintain the system throughout its life.

Discount Energy Purchase (DEP)

As capital funds are not always available, Power EcoSystems can offer a DEP scenario where we install, operate and finance the Cogeneration installation, at no cost to you and simply contract the energy produced by the CHP back to you at a discounted rate. This scenario provides customers with the following benefits:

• No capital outlay / risk
• No continual maintenance / aftercare costs
• Guaranteed capped energy costs for the duration of the agreement
• Faster route to scheme implementation and immediate saving