Monday, July 29 — The Northeast Chapter of the Combined Heat and Power Alliance sent a letter to the New York Public Service Commission in support of a petition from Energy Investment Systems, Inc., which requested an exemption for its CHP plant from the 10k-kilowatt cap on participation in the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) regulations and tariff. The VDER is mechanism to compensate distributed energy projects that provide electricity to the grid.
The Chapter strongly believes this EIS project should be granted an exemption because, compared to grid emissions in the local area of New York City and southern Westchester, CHP technology results in significantly less carbon emissions than the generation of grid power and independent combustion of fossil fuel for thermal energy. As recognized by NYSERDA, “avoided carbon emissions” is a specific benefit it is seeking to achieve by implementing the VDER regulations.
View our letter here.