{"id":107,"date":"2009-11-30T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-30T16:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2010-03-02T19:43:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T23:43:15","slug":"alternative-energy-generation-for-massachusetts-water-treatment-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/alternative-energy-generation-for-massachusetts-water-treatment-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Alternative energy generation for Massachusetts water treatment facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) has a\u00a0 state-wide\u00a0 energy management pilot program underway to reduce the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities.\u00a0 Initiated in December 2007, the program&#8217;s intent is to reduce the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of the facilities by <strong>20%<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a title=\"Massachusetts DEP pilot program web page\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mass.gov\/dep\/water\/wastewater\/empilot.htm\" target=\"_blank\">energy management pilot program<\/a> encompasses fourteen facilities &#8211; seven water treatment plants and seven wastewater treatment plans.\u00a0 The program targets $3.7 million in annual energy savings through energy effiiciency and renewable energy generation.<\/p>\n<p>The renewable energy portion of the pilot encompasses generating <strong>7 MW<\/strong> of electricity using four renewable energy technologies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Solar Photovoltaic &#8211; 4.6 MW<\/li>\n<li>Wind &#8211; 2.4 MW<\/li>\n<li>Hydropower &#8211; 140 kW<\/li>\n<li>Combined Heat &amp; Power (including methane recapture) &#8211; 165 kW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the DEP&#8217;s own estimates, the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">total<\/span> electricity use of all Massachusetts wastewater &amp; water treatment facilities is\u00a0 <strong>1 billion kWh<\/strong> per year, at an estimated cost of <strong>$141 million<\/strong>.\u00a0 A 10 &#8211; 20% savings throughout the system would mean significant cost savings and greenhouse gas reductions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts DEP (Department of Environmental Protection) has a\u00a0 state-wide\u00a0 energy management pilot program underway to reduce the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of drinking water and wastewater treatment facilities.\u00a0 Initiated in December 2007, the program&#8217;s intent is to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,4,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clean-energy","category-massachusetts","category-water","","tg-column-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.riverbendadvisors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}