Silver Member

Solar Turbines is a world leading producer of mid-range industrial gas turbines for use in power generation, natural gas compression, and pumping systems. It provides full product support, equipment supply, financing, plus installation and operation and maintenance capability. In 1981, Caterpillar purchased the Company, and today, Solar Turbines Incorporated is a wholly owned subsidiary.

Solar Turbines' products include six gas turbine product families, Saturn®, Centaur®, Mercuryâ„¢, Taurusâ„¢, Mars®, Titanâ„¢, and eight centrifugal gas compressor product families including both pipeline and multi-stage compressors. Gas Turbine Products range from 1-22 MW (1500-30,000hp). Solar also manufactures Turbotronicâ„¢ microprocessor-based control systems utilizing PLC technology. Services offered by the Company cover gas turbine and gas compressor overhaul, parts replacement, field service, package refurbishment, and asset management.

Solar sells, manufactures, and services its products in more than 96 countries from over 30 worldwide locations. Business is conducted through these offices with sales and service employees plus sales representatives and selected distributors. Although 80% of Solar's employees and 85% of the physical assets are located in the U.S., Solar exports more than 70% of its products. Solar is one of the 50 largest exporters in the United States.

Solar participates in two major market segments: Oil and Gas Production and Transmission (O&G), and Power Generation (PG).  An essential requirement for market success is operating effectively in every global region. Solar is a domestic company competing and winning internationally through a marketing strategy of deploying processes within the culture of the region. By placing people in specific geographic areas and driving decisions down to their locale, Solar is able to operate effectively within the common practices of the region.  Another important requirement for market success is providing the necessary after-sales service and support in any global location. Because gas turbine installations operate for decades, service for the life of the product, overhaul, and refurbishment are critical components of market success.

Bronze Members

American Heat and Power, LLC.  The very nature of our work is Environmentally Responsible. Our goal is to capture and utilize energy sources that are otherwise wasted or discarded. Our innovative energy recovery solutions reduce our need for precious non-renewable energy sources and promote a cleaner environment.

Solving Waste Disposal Problems with Energy Solutions - While we also develop heat recovery and cogen projects and provide long-term plant operations, AHP focuses on solving two important problems simultaneously, waste and energy. The goal is the disposal of a waste stream in a manner that utilizes the calorific value (energy) in that waste stream to offset purchased energy utilities (heat and/or electricity). This 1) reduces pollution in our environment, 2) solves a disposal problem, 3) reduces our dependence on non-renewable energy sources, and 4) utilizes the energy savings to help pay back the cost of the environmentally friendly systems.

Waste Energy Recovery and responsible plant operations is a win-win-win-win solution for the environment, for waste disposal, for energy conservation, and for energy cost savings!

Arup is a global firm of designers, engineers, planners and business consultants providing a diverse range of professional services to clients around the world.  Our innovative and fully-integrated approach brings our full complement of skills and knowledge to bear on any given design problem. We exert a significant influence on the built environment and are the creative force behind many of the world's most innovative and sustainable designs. Our firm has almost 9000 staff working in 92 offices in more than 37 countries. At any one time, we have over 10 000 projects running concurrently.

Arup has three main global business areas -- buildings, infrastructure and consulting -- although our multi-disciplinary approach means that any given project may involve people from any or all of the sectors or regions in which we operate. Our fundamental aim is to bring together the best professionals in the world to meet our clients' needs.

CleanEnergy, LC is a CHP development business with roots in the natural gas distribution and energy marketing business. The company was formed in 2003 to investigate fuel cell technologies for residential and commercial customers in the north Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. The local gas distribution network is an ideal platform for clean, immediate, baseload power. When alpha and beta testing of fuel cell technologies did not meet initial expectations, CleanEnergy refocused on energy efficient combined heat and power (CHP) technologies as an alternative to proposed coal-fired electric generation in the state.

Post Hurricane Season 2005, the need for energy security offered by CHP became apparent to CleanEnergy principals. They focused on organizing a working group that became the Texas CHP Initiative. CleanEnergy works on CHP applications for hospitals, hotels, and other critical infrastructure. CleanEnergy CHP provides the following benefits to keep critical health and emergency services functioning -- along with vital public and economic functions -- during a natural disaster or terrorist attack:

• Energy security and reliability
• Reduced system vulnerability
• Disaster mitigation
• Disaster recovery
• Business continuity during grid outages
• Lower cost of power and thermal energy

CleanEnergy continues to focus on the need for change in public policy as it relates to the barriers to full deployment of CHP and related technologies across the Lone Star State. Contact Rich Herweck.

Distributed Energy Financial Group, LLC (DEFG LLC) has three branded business units in the energy and environment space.  DEFG provides management consulting services focused on innovative energy technologies and solutions. Its clients include energy retailers, utilities, service providers and energy technology companies. DEFG manages several research efforts focused on the customer experience and the application of emerging energy technologies. DEFG Ventures, LLC is an investment arm that provides angel and venture capital and advisory services to alternative energy technology companies. EcoAlign is a full-service strategic marketing agency. EcoAlign helps business clients to close the "green gap" between what customers want to do about energy and environment, and their actual purchasing behavior. EcoAlign prepares a free bi-monthly EcoPinion survey report. Contact: Nat Treadway.

• industrial waste heat recovery
• waste fuel utilization
• repowering of existing assets
• non-conventional fuel credits
• air emission credits
• high efficiencty and availability

Primenergy, LLc., is an original equipment supplier. Primenergy offers a biomass-adaptable fixed-bed, atmospheric-pressure, updraft gasification system. Our gasification process produces a low-Btu (200-250 typ./std.cu.ft.) syngas. The syngas can then be combusted to produce thermal energy, steam and/or electricity. Using gasification in combination with a variety of abatement technologies, the most strigent emissions standards are achievable.

Primenergy, LLc. offers turnkey service including process design, detailed engineering and mechanical design, equipment fabrication and procurement and installation. Our sister company, Heater Specialists, fabricates most of the stationary equipment. Proprietary stationary equipment, baghouses, ESP's, conveyors, etc., are outsourced. Rotating equipment, turbine generators, pumps, fans, etc., are outsourced. Our sister company, Mohawk Field Services, Inc., performs field installation. MFSI is a non-union construction company. Our proposal prices include hundreds of hours of engineering time for onsite commissioning and operator training.

Six plants are in operation in the U.S. including our 30 Tn/day pilot plant at our Tulsa, OK main offices and shops. Fuels in service are rice hulls, wood chips, carpet scraps and corn fiber (from the kernel hull). Our oldest and largest plant produces 150,000 lbs/hr medium-pressure steam or 12.8 MW power from 500 Tns./day rice hulls. It has been in operation for over twelve years at Riceland Foods' rice parboiling plant in Stuttgart, Ark. Our most recent project was for ICM's 40 mmgy corn-to-ethanol commercial-scale pilot plant at Lifeline Foods, St. Joseph, MO.

Primenergy, LLc., is owned by Energy Process Technology, Inc., Tulsa, OK. Sister companies are Heater Specialists, Mohawk Field Services, and Primenergy Production Equipment. Heater Specialists is an ASTM code vessel fabrication shop, combining fabrication with refractory installation paint and coating application. Heater Specialists builds engineered, pre-turnaround equipment for Fluid Catalytic Crackers for petroleum refineries; and components for Fired Heaters, Reformers, and Ethylene Furnaces, for petroleum refineries and chemical plants. Mohawk Field Services, Inc., is a non-union construction company specializing in the installation and repair of Fired Heaters, Reformers, and Ethylene Furnaces in petroleum refineries and chemical plants. Primenergy Production Equipment builds mid-stream oil and gas production equipment. Products include natural gas glycol dehydrators and crude oil electrostatic heater treater/desalters. The companies are co-located at three locations in the Tulsa, OK, area. Facilities include a fabrication, and shipping facility at the Port of Catoosa, OK on the Kerr-McClellan Canal on the U.S. Inland Waterway System. From the Port of Catoosa, Energy Process Technology operation companies ship equipment all over the world. Contact: Bill Tietze.

Siemans Power Generation is one of the world’s leading suppliers of components and systems to companies in the energy and electricity industry. With roughly 40,500 employees, we had sales of over EUR 12 billion and received new orders for approximately EUR 18 billion in fiscal 2007 (October 1 – September 30).

Siemans Power Generation has many years experience in power generation - combined cycle, simple cycle, IGCC or steam power plants. Moreover we offer advanced compression solutions - for the oil and gas industry as well as for applications in air separation plants, metal making and in the chemical industry. But beyond that, we also take seriously our resonsibility for health, safety, and the protection of the environment - and finding the right solution for your unique needs.

Modern turbomachinery equipment and power plant technology must deliver low costs, high flexibility, absolute safety, and excellent compatibility with the environment and the climate. Backed by proven technology and many years of experience and innovative ideas, we support our customers in successfully meeting all of these requirements. With our global network, we have a presence in nearly all regions of the world, and roughly one-fifth of installed power plant capacity worldwide is from Siemens Power Generation.

Ensuring a sustainable supply of energy that will remain viable into the future requires a balanced mix of technologies based on all energy sources. Siemens Power Generation is optimally prepared for this challenge with a comprehensive portfolio of advanced technology for power and heat generation as well as solutions for the oil and gas industry.

In addition to highly efficient fossil fuel-fired turbomachinery (gas and steam turbines), generators and power plants, we also develop wind energy plants for both onshore and offshore installation. Our offerings include individualized planning and consulting, turnkey plant construction, maintenance, and everything our customers need to operate a power plant throughout its entire life cycle. Whether for a modernization of a plant or for monitoring and reducing emissions of pollutants in fossil fuel-fired power plants, our comprehensive service offerings are always based on state-of-the-art plant diagnostics and systems technology.

We also develop coal-fired power plants with COâ‚‚ capture. Here our activities are focused on steam power plants with post-combustion COâ‚‚ scrubbing and capture for existing and new plants, as well as on integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) plants. These are combined cycle power plants with integrated coal gasification and pre-combustion COâ‚‚ capture. Our IGCC plants rely on our especially reliable and proven entrained flow technology, which is very well suited for producing synthetic fuels or chemicals.

We are also the only power plant manufacturer to supply control technology for all plant types. We are active in the nuclear and hydroelectric market segments through our minority holding in AREVA NP and Voith Siemens Hydro, and we’re also a leader in the development of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). For our customers in the oil and gas industry, we offer a comprehensive portfolio from a single source, including solutions with industrial gas and steam turbines, complete compressor trains as well as extensive services.

TECO. The Mission of the Texas Medical Center Central Heating and Cooling Services Corporation (TECO) is to provide economical and reliable thermal services to institutions in the Texas Medical Center. TECO specializes in providing thermal services allowing its customers to concentrate on their primary missions, which have brought national and international acclaim to the Texas Medical Center.

The TECO Central Plant was originally built by the Houston Natural Gas Corporation (HNG) and began operation in 1969, serving many of TECO's present customers. The Texas Medical Center Heating and Cooling Services Cooperative Association was authorized by the State of Texas to operate on a not-for-profit cooperative basis, to serve eligible institutions, and the HNG plant was acquired on June 1, 1978.

Today, TECO is owned by nine Texas Medical Center Institutions and operates two plants (Central Plant and South Main Plant) with a combined capacity of 80,000 tons of chilled water, 761,000 pounds-per-hour of steam and 16,330 kW of emergency power generation. These plants supply service to 25 Texas Medical Center institutions in 42 buildings, which occupy approximately 13 million square feet of space, and represent over 75 percent of contiguous Texas Medical Center central campus building space.  TECO is the only thermal system in the Texas Medical Center authorized to supply multi-institution services.

  TOMMY JOHN ENGINEERING, INC. 

Under the leadership of Tommy John PE, the company provides innovative technical and business consulting services to the process, power, and energy industries. This includes all phases of the development of Combined Heat and Power, Waste Heat Recovery, and Renewable Energy projects. TJE can provide a range of services including conceptual design, economic analysis, specification, project management, commissioning, and environmental management. 

Mr. John is a pioneer of the CHP industry in Texas and a founder and Past President of the Gulf Coast Cogeneration Association (now the Gulf Coast Power Association). His accomplishments include development and implementation of CHP, energy conservation, combustion including byproduct fuels and wood, heat recovery, process and reliability improvement, and water treatment projects. In addition, he developed the first landfill gas to electricity project in Texas and directed a public relations program for landfill gas projects resulting in positive media coverage in three major markets as well as contacts with public officials, residents and environmental groups. He has extensive experience with environmental issues including water management, noise control, measurement and reducion of NOx and CO emissions, and air permitting. 
 
Mr. John holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Texas Tech and a Masters of Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston and is a Registered Professional Engineer. He is currently serving as Vice Chair of the Texas Combined Heat and Power Initiative and served as President of the Gulf Coast Cogeneration Association, President of the Gulf Coast Energy Conservation Society, and Chair of the South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. He presented and published technical papers on the subjects of process technology, combustion, CHP, and energy conservation. Contact: Tommy John.

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