SUNY Stony Brook Cogeneration Plant

    The Nissequogue Cogen Partners (NCP) cogeneration plant located at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SUNY) provides energy to the school, with its more than 17,000 students and 10,000 employees, as well as the university hospital which has an approximately 900 bed capacity.  It serves the university by providing clean, efficient and reliable energy at a very competitive price.

    The simple system generates and supplies up to 280,000 pounds of steam per hour to the university for its heating and cooling needs.  The plant also generates 40 megawatts (MW) of electricity, satisfying all of the university's power needs.  Excess capacity is sold to the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).

    The SUNY plant is owned as a 50/50 partnership by CEA and Gas Energy Inc.(GEI), a subsidiary of Brooklyn Union Gas Company.  CEA is responsible for operating ad maintaining the plant.

    The plants main source of electrical power is derived from a jet engine turbine.  It runs on natural gas and can also be run on #2 oil if necessary.  It is a cogeneration plant because it produces energy from the jet turbine and the excess heat that is given off from the jet is used for heating the campus.   In this way the efficiency of the plant is in the range of 80% (compared to 40% efficiency of the engine).

       Like most power plant, the SUNY Cogeneration Plant does produce some pollutants.  The pollutants are under strict control and they must meet the DEC standards.  These pollutants are listed in the table below.