From: "Barbara J. Fruhling" <bfruhlin@Princeton.EDU>
Date: April 22, 2014 at 12:43:36 PM EDT
To: ee-seminar@Princeton.EDU
Subject: EE Seminar - April 28, 2014, 7:30 pm, Friend Center, 109 - Thomas A. Nyquist
Reply-To: "Barbara J. Fruhling" <bfruhlin@Princeton.EDU>

 

 

Speaker:      Thomas A. Nyquist

Princeton University Executive Director, Engineering and Campus Energy, Engineering and Construction

Title:              Buying energy for the Princeton campus

Lecture series on Contemporary Challenges in Electric Power

Date:             Monday, April 28, 2014          

Time:             7:30 p.m.            

Room:           Friend Center, 109

Host:             Prof. Sigurd Wagner

 

Outline:

1. How we used to purchase power and our plant operations when we operated using the old PSEG tariff.

2. The new PJM electric market and how we changed our operations to adapt to the new economic structure.

3. Why we changed the design of our new chilled water plant in response to the new PJM rates.

4. Explain new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission orders; our response to them; and the economic benefits.

5. Finally, the CO2 benefits of cogeneration, and potential operational changes to reduce CO2 emissions.