DCO Energy wins clean energy leadership award

BCUA CHP Cogeneration Facility converts wastewater biogas into combined heat and power (CHP), delivering on-site thermal and electric energy, higher efficiency, and resilience, honored by the New Jersey Clean Energy Award for lowering emissions.

DCO Energy, an independent energy development company, announced one of its most successful 2009 projects has won a New Jersey Clean Energy Leadership Award, an honor bestowed by the state's Clean Energy Program.

"We'd like to congratulate the Bergen County Utilities Authority's Water Pollution Control Division for being selected as Local Government Partner of the Year," DCO president Frank DiCola said. "We were pleased to serve as design builder, project manager and operator under a contract award for the combined heat and power cogeneration facility honored by this 2009 New Jersey Clean Energy Award."

First approved in 2006 and online in 2008, the Bergen County Utilities Authority (BCUA) combined heat and power (CHP) facility produces reliable, efficient and economical thermal and electric energy from byproducts of wastewater treatment, a proven waste-to-energy pathway adopted nationwide today. The energy produced by the CHP plant is consumed entirely by the BCUA wastewater pollution control facility located in Little Ferry, N.J., supporting water-to-revenue initiatives across the county.

Once powered entirely by purchased natural gas and electricity, the cogeneration facility, alongside N.J. utility generation policy developments in the region, greatly reduces the Little Ferry facility’s dependency on fossil fuels. Under BCUA's visionary leadership, the CHP cogeneration project is the first of many amid regional power plant approvals that will satisfy New Jersey's Energy Master Plan.

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