RED’s home is energy recycling capital
Posted by Dick Munson on May 17th, 2010
Forget stockyards and railroads. The City of Big Shoulders, RED’s very own sweet home Chicago, has become a national center for energy recycling — the most cost-effective clean energy solution around.
As RED’s own Sean Casten pointed out at the Environmental Law & Policy Center’s recent forum on Chicago’s clean energy economy, the Windy City is home to several energy recycling companies. It also boasts numerous research institutions and associations focused on this kind of clean energy, including the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Midwest CHP Application Center, which coordinates our region’s combined heat and power technologies.
Chicago also has several CHP and waste energy recovery projects nearby. For example, just south of the city, ArcelorMittal Steel’s smelters capture waste energy from their coke ovens and stacks in order to generate about as much electricity as a small coal-fired power plant, all without burning additional fossil fuel or emitting pollution or greenhouse gases.
Chicago as HQ for the leading energy-recycling businesses, research centers and installations makes it a great center for energy innovation.
No wonder we like it here.
