“Clinton Hill Apartments, located in Brooklyn, NY is installing twelve Capstone Micro Turbines to supply electricity needs and domestic hot-water heating. This project is expected to provide a peak load reduction of 528 kW and save Clinton Hill Apartments $217,000 per year in energy costs.”

Source: NYSERDA 2002 briefing paper; NYSERDA publications http://www.nyserda.org/programs/pdfs/Clinton%20Hill%20Apartments%20CHP.pdf

In June 2006, CHAOC “completed the largest installation of advanced microturbine cogenerating units serving a residential complex. Fueled by clean-burning natural gas, the 13 units generate 600 kilowatts of electricity as well as hot water for 7 of the 12 buildings. These dual-purpose units will reduce Clinton Hill’s energy usage and costs by 40 percent and also enable the summer shutdown of four nearly 60-year-old heavy residual oil burners used to produce hot water.”

Source: http://www.cleanaircommunities.org/projects/clintonhill.html

According to the CHAOC Financial Statement, Mar 31, 2008, Note 11, p. 14 (Jacobs & Schwartz, CPA), “This new equipment has had a dramatic effect on the efficiency of utility use and consumption at the Cooperative. The Cooperative has been able to secure grants [$1.4M] from NYSERDA and Clean Air Communities.”

I think it is amazing that we live in a community that has embraced this new technology, but it would be nice to see some 5 year historic energy utilization reports to really validate the projected benefits…