The Texas Combined Heat and Power hosts its second quarterly luncheon of the year. Join us at the Brookhaven Country Club in North Dallas. We encourage attendees to bring guests to expand the Initiative's reach and help it grow. Guest speaker Mark Armentrout, President and CEO of Texas Technology Partners and former ERCOT Board Chair, will present on "Texas Electric Generation, the Drought, and CHP." Details 

The Texas Combined Heat and Power Initiative was recently featured in the Austin Business Journal.  The article highlighted the Initiative and role it plays to champion the use of CHP. The article also featured three Austin area companies involved in the CHP industry and invited other Austin area CHP related companies to attend a TXCHPI networking event.

GC CEAC Director Dan Bullock and Texas CHP Initiative Executive Director Paul Cauduro co-authored "Will the Coming Texas Power Crunch Create Another CHP Boom", which appears in the recent issue of COSPP Magazine. The piece projects the benefits of increasing natural gas CHP in Texas from 20 percent to 35 percent of statewide electricity generation by 2025. The authors estimate that this scenario would conserve roughly 161 billion gallons of water and relieve the electric grid of roughly 87 MWh relative to "Business-as-Usual" projections.

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) proposed "Permit by Rule" (PBR) seeks to streamline the CHP permitting process pursuant to a new Texas law (HB 3268). TXCHPI submitted comments seeking a higher capacity threshold for eligible CHP systems, among other recommendations. TCEQ's final ruling is expected by late summer.

The Texas CHP Initiative welcomes new members Entergy Thermal, AEI, Pepco Energy Services, MAN Diesel & Turbo, Harvey Cleary, Thermax, and Stewart and Stevenson. Expanding the Initiative's membership base ensures the organization's sustainability, improves services to members, and bolsters its legislative influence.