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CHP looks better than ever to a growing list of energy consumers

As a wide range of companies and organizations realize the cost and environmental benefits of combined heat and power (CHP) systems, installations around the world continue to expand.

Thomas Edison could have rested on his laurels after inventing the electric light bulb. But to no one’s surprise at the time, the irrepressible Mr. Edison kept innovating. One of his next creations was the Pearl Street power station—the world’s first economically viable application of cogeneration principles. Edison’s innovative “dynamo” generators and underground network of wires and pipes distributed electricity to those nifty new incandescent bulbs and provided steam heat to hundreds of delighted customers in lower Manhattan.

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