The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) received $2.2 million over four years from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to provide support and technical assistance throughout California, Nevada and Hawaii to drive wider development of cogeneration energy technologies as solutions to the nation’s energy issues. DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy selected San Diego-based CCSE to direct the Pacific regional combined heat and power technical assistance partnership (CHP-TAP), one of seven regional partnerships. CCSE is the CHP-TAP program director leading the effort in collaboration with Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) in San Francisco and DE Solutions in Encinitas, Calif. The main purpose of the DOE regional partnerships is to increase the nation’s clean energy capacity using combined heat and power (CHP) systems that capture energy that would normally be lost in industrial and commercial facilities.
