F UEL CELLS PROVIDE RELIABLE POWER TO U.S. P OSTAL SERVICE F ACILITY IN ANCHORAGE, A LASKA

Authors

  • Steven Parker Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13052/dgaej2156-3306.1814

Abstract

Working together, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) and Chugach Elec-
tric Association, partnering with the Department of Defense (DOD),
Department of Energy (DOE), US Army Corps of Engineers Construction
Engineering Research Laboratories (USA CERL), Electric Power Research
Institute (EPRI), and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
(NRECA), developed and installed one of the largest fuel cell installa-
tions in the world.
The 1-Megawatt fuel
cell combined heat and
power plant sits behind the
Anchorage U.S. Postal Ser-
vice Mail Processing and Dis-
tribution Facility. Chugach
Electric owns, operates, and maintains the fuel cell power plant, which
provides clean, reliable power to the USPS facility. In addition, heat re-
covered from the fuel cells, in the form of hot water, is used to heat the
USPS Mail Processing and Distribution Facility. By taking a leadership
role, the USPS will save over $800,000 in electricity and natural gas costs
over the 5 1/2-year contract term with Chugach Electric.

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Author Biography

Steven Parker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Steven Parker, PE, CEM, is a senior research engineer at the Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). In addition, Steven currently
serves as the 2002 National President of the Association of Energy Engi-
neers and the Editor-in-Chief of the Cogeneration and Competitive
Power Journal. He presently manages several technical assistance pro-
grams at PNNL for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Depart-
ment of Energy (DOE), Federal Energy Management Program (FEMP),
including the New Technology Demonstration Program. He serves on
the planning committees for both the Association of Energy Engineers
(AEE)-sponsored World Energy Engineering Congress and the DOE-
sponsored Energy 2003 Energy Efficiency Workshop and Expositions.
Deeply involved in energy management since 1981, Steven has con-
ducted several hundred energy audits of industrial, commercial, institu-
tional, and Federal facilities both in the United States and overseas. In
addition, Steven has instructed numerous energy-efficiency workshops
and seminars both for DOE and the AEE and has been a significant
contributor to the AEE-sponsored Certified Energy Manager (CEM) pro-
gram. Steven Parker has authored numerous technical reports, articles
and other professional publications in the area of energy efficiency and
energy cost reduction. He may be contact via e-mail at
steven.parker@pnl.gov

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Published

2003-01-16

How to Cite

Parker, S. . (2003). F UEL CELLS PROVIDE RELIABLE POWER TO U.S. P OSTAL SERVICE F ACILITY IN ANCHORAGE, A LASKA. Distributed Generation &Amp; Alternative Energy Journal, 18(1), 63–73. https://doi.org/10.13052/dgaej2156-3306.1814

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2003: Vol 18 Iss 1

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Articles