The Marketing Department of PGW has organized the breakfast meeting at the Park Hyatt Hotel as a means to tout the numerous benefits of CHP using natural gas as the primary fuel source for co-generation customers. Co-generation, a building’s energy system that recovers and reuses thermal heat for heating, cooling and/or hot water equipment, is an innovative tool in the energy industry that many institutional, industrial and commercial companies are now utilizing.

Mr. Moore was instrumental in MIT’s conversion in September of 1995 and will share the motivation and reasoning that helped his institution execute its energy strategy. The conversion has been so successful that in 2001, MIT was awarded the 2001 ENERGY STARÒ CHP Award by the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy. Their new system uses 28% less fuel than purchased electricity and onsite thermal generation, reduces carbon dioxide emissions by 72,000 tons and saves about $1.7 million in fuel costs per year.

"We think that this will be a wonderful opportunity for our customers to get a first-person account of the benefits of CHP utilizing natural gas as the primary fuel source," said Joe Smith, Director, Major Accounts, Marketing. "A facility that installs a CHP plant is positioned to take control of its energy cost and eliminate demand charges."

Founded in 1836, PGW is the nation's largest municipally owned natural gas utility, serving a half million residential, commercial, and industrial customers, and Philadelphia's choice for quality energy solutions.

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