Summary
The proposal described in a recent op-ed, "Generate clean, cheap, local power" (BDN, Sept. 29) to use waste heat from the Eastern Maine Medical Center's heating and cooling plant to produce electricity is exactly the sort of highly efficient combined heat and power facility that the Conservation Law Foundation believes should be a major force on our energy landscape.
While we do need large, regional electric transmission systems in New England, generating power locally and using it without the losses that are part of long distance transmission are important components of a sensible energy structure. Local generation is a great complement to distributed generation, which is inherently less vulnerable to power outages as well as being the cheaper option in many cases.See the full content of this document
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