Capstone Turbine Corporation (Nasdaq: CPST), a leading manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced that two of its 30-kilowatt microturbines currently operating at New England Gas Company in Rhode Island surpassed a milestone of more than 45,000 hours of near continuous operation. “New England Gas Company, which serves more than a quarter-million customers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, was an early supporter of distributed generation,” said Capstone CEO John R. Tucker. “Their two Capstone C30s have been running nearly non-stop for more than five years, accumulating more than 45,000 hours of operation thus far.”
Capstone MicroTurbines are very low emission, very high efficiency generators of power and heat used to reduce energy costs and increase energy security at a variety of businesses and public facilities. With only one moving part and no need for oil, lubricant, coolant, other hazardous materials or even water, Capstone MicroTurbines are most often deployed in combined heat and power (CHP) applications in which the exhaust heat is used to heat water or to drive absorption chillers – which create cold from heat energy instead of electric energy – in combined cooling, heating and power (CCHP) applications.
Several examples of Capstone’s CHP and CCHP installations will be featured at the US Department of Energy’s Microturbine Applications Workshop (www.ms.ornl.gov/maw06/default.html) being held next week in San Francisco. In addition to several end-user presentations, the workshop will feature a tour January 19 of a utility site in Oakland that operates an array of ten C60 Capstone MicroTurbines as well as a tour highlighting four 60-kilowatt Capstone-made systems driving an OEM CCHP installation at the San Francisco Ritz-Carlton Hotel.
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