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Improving our efficiency
Greening up our facilitiesFrom our corporate headquarters in Newark to our field locations, we are reducing our own carbon footprint. In the first phase of a three-stage effort, we’ve completed energy audits of 11 facilities and have identified ways to reduce electric usage by more than 26.5 million kilowatt hours annually.
Step #1 -- Convert existing electric boilers at our corporate headquarters building in Newark to gas-fired boilers.
Savings: More than 7.2 million kilowatt hours of electricity and 8.2 million pounds of CO2 annually, even with the carbon emitted from the natural gas boilers.
Step #2 -- Install occupancy sensors.
Savings: More than 400,000 kilowatt hours and 502,000 pounds of CO2 annually.
These steps are just the beginning. Through better facilities management, PSEG can reduce energy use, operating expenses and greenhouse gas emissions.
Reducing energy loss
PSE&G is reducing energy loss in our service territory by investing in more energy-efficient electric delivery equipment, including overhead wires, utility pole transformers and transformer banks. This should reduce energy loss and cut greenhouse gas emissions by some 60,000 tons by 2020.
PSE&G is also working to improve energy efficiency in the national electric distribution system by taking a leading role in the “Green Circuits Initiative” of the Electric Power Research Institute.
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PSE&G is installing new overhead wires,
utility pole transformers and transformer
banks to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
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This 18-month research and development project will study ways to reduce the loss of electricity as it flows through distribution lines supplying power to customers.
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Funding energy research
Can fuel cells or other distributed generation technologies reduce carbon emissions by helping produce electricity more efficiently? Can electric energy storage help improve the economics of renewable generation technolgoies and help to reduce carbon emissions?
PSEG is studying these questions by jointly funding research projects with the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Advanced fuel cell technology may create one more way to reduce the carbon emissions that contribute to global warming.
Using energy storage and distributed generation technologies may lower greenhouse gas emissions, but PSEG wants to better understand that process. PSEG is co-funding an EPRI research project to develop methods for calculating and quantifying the greenhouse gas footprint of various technologies in specific situations. With this information, PSEG can better assess how well these new technologies reduce CO2 emissions.
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