November 2021 APEC Southern Illinois Chapter Meeting

Topic: Identifying Ideal Candidates for Combined Heating and Power

Speaker: Graeme Miller, Assistant Director, US DOE Midwest CHP Technical Assistance Partnership 

Graeme Miller is a Senior Research Specialist with the Energy Resources Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). At the ERC, Mr. Miller works on energy policy issues as the Assistant Director of the US DOE Midwest Combined Heat and Power Technical Assistance Partnership. In his current research, Mr. Miller focuses on identifying, quantifying, and addressing barriers to clean distributed generation technologies such as combined heat and power (CHP), waste heat to power (WHP), district energy (DE), and energy efficiency (EE) installations. Mr. Miller has written research papers on CHP, energy efficiency, energy security and utility rate policy.

Graeme spoke on how site thermal and electric loads help determine the feasibility of potential CHP applications. In addition, Graeme provided a brief overview of the recently passed Illinois Energy Legislation and how it may impact CHP development.

APEC November 2021 Chapter Presentation – Combined Heat and Power