Cogeneration Plant
721 Charles E Young Dr S, Los Angeles, CA 90095
34.0673537,-118.446483
About
The Cogeneration plant, or its official name: Energy Systems Facility, is a 44 MegaWatt natural gas power plant that was built in 1994. This type of plant is twice as efficient as a normal power plant because it combines heat and power production, to then utilize the waste energy into electricity generation to produce steam and chilled water for heating and cooling. Although still being a natural gas power plant, unlike diesel or coal-burning power plants, it produces less CO2. Additionally, as a way to prevent too much of a reliance on natural gas, UCLA tries to make use of the methane gas and biogas as alternative energy sources. The seven percent of the methane gas used in the plant is piped in from the MountainGate landfill located in the canyons above the Getty Center, which demonstrates a resourceful practice of locally produced gas to then help uptake/use GHGs in the area. This plant also takes the waste heat from the energy producing process to make steam that then will get chilled to cool the campus during the day.
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