Why Shift the Central Power Station Paradigm?

"It's two to three times more expensive on a per-megawatt basis to build transmission than to build gas pipeline.  So, I question the idea of building all these gas turbines at the wellhead and then assuming that you're going to string wire to get to market." 

 - William K. Newman, Senior VP, The Southern Company

Cogentech, Inc. leads Western North America in providing custom on-site energy solutions to industrial and commercial businesses.  Our core purpose is to promote the sensible use of cost-effective, emissions reducing, and resource conserving CHP systems.  We are especially poised to serve the power needs of the rapidly growing Western United States, which is littered with widespread congestion management problems in power transmission and distribution compounded by mounting Supply & Demand discrepancies.

Through the development and deployment of high-efficiency 300 kW to 30 MW on-site power generation systems, Cogentech is proactively leading the way to show companies how to control energy costs, participate in natural resource conservation, and reap the maximum benefit from fuels that they already purchase.

Cogentech works closely with environmental permitting agencies, staff and outside engineers, and equipment manufacturers to ensure that the overall impact (air emissions, sound levels, and physical footprint) is the lowest possible for each application.

Permit issuance is fast-tracked because these are among the cleanest and most efficient energy plants ever built in the Industrial Age.

Of the several thousand potential CHP sites in the Western U.S., only a very small number of plants have actually been built:  through streamlined designs that are simple to install and operate, and because the energy savings AND emissions reduction from even a single custom Combined Heat & Power plant are capable of dwarfing residential and small commercial efforts, Cogentech is rapidly changing Western energy habits.

The correlation of natural gas and electricity prices substantiates the irrefutable conclusion that energy costs are best controlled through efficiency.

Higher efficiency in turn leads to significantly lower energy costs: typical savings range from 25% to 75%.

We have trademarked the phrase sustainable^ENERGY™ in order to capture the true ‘Win-Win’ nature of custom CHP:  where Economics & Ecology meet on common ground.