Capstone MicroTurbines at Military Facility Surpass Operating Milestone; Capstone to Exhibit ICHP Model at Federal Energy Show Today.CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Capstone Turbine Capstone Turbine Corporation NASDAQ: CPST, incorporated in 1988, is a California based gas turbine manufacturer that specializes in microturbine power and heat cogeneration systems. Capstone has sold and shipped more than 3,000 of these one-moving-part systems worldwide. Corporation(R) (www.microturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST CPST Cable Programming Services Tier CPST Commission on Professionals in Science and Technology CPST Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment (Ohio) CPST Child Passenger Safety Technician CPST Classical Perturbation Scattering Theory ), the world's leading manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, announced that two of its 60-kilowatt microturbines currently operating at a military facility in California recently surpassed a milestone of 25,000 hours of near continuous operation. "We have a few dozen Capstone MicroTurbines(R) at military facilities in the U.S. and abroad, but this two-unit array, commissioned three years ago this month, was one of the first," said Capstone Chief Executive Officer John R. Tucker. "Although we don't have permission from the US Military to disclose the facility by name or location, what I can tell you is that the Department of Defense is at the forefront of a program for reliable, clean, efficient on-site energy production with reduced emissions. We're very proud at Capstone to have been selected for this project three years ago, and to be part of the Department of Defense's vision and leadership which is setting the example for other such military installations." The two C60 Capstone MicroTurbines create up to 120 kilowatts (kW) of power 24/7, to reduce demand on the local utility grid. The Capstone system's near-zero-emission exhaust is ported to a custom, third-party heat exchanger heat exchanger Any of several devices that transfer heat from a hot to a cold fluid. In many engineering applications, one fluid needs to be heated and another cooled, a requirement economically accomplished by a heat exchanger. to heat a water loop at the facility, offsetting boiler use. "As good as that solution was at the time and still continues to be, our current C60-ICHP with an integrated heat exchanger, is an even better solution," said Allen McNair, Capstone's Vice-President of Sales for the Americas. The company will be displaying its current C60-ICHP system at this week's Energy 2005, a federal and military energy efficiency trade show opening today in Long Beach, California Long Beach is a city located in southern Los Angeles County, California, USA, on the Pacific coast. It borders Orange County on its southeast edge. It is about 20 miles (30 km) south of downtown Los Angeles. . "Our 80% efficient C60-ICHP model produces 60 kW of three-phase power and 120 kW of thermal energy thermal energy Internal energy of a system in thermodynamic equilibrium (see thermodynamics) by virtue of its temperature. A hot body has more thermal energy than a similar cold body, but a large tub of cold water may have more thermal energy than a cup of boiling ," said McNair. "According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. DOE statistics, conventional boilers and utility power generators burn approximately 50% more fuel to create those same energy outputs." About Capstone Turbine Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.microturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST) is the world's leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems. In 1998, Capstone was the first to offer commercial energy products utilizing microturbine technology, the result of more than ten years of focused research. Capstone Turbine has shipped more than 3,000 Capstone MicroTurbine systems to customers worldwide. These award-winning systems have logged more than 9.4 million runtime hours of documented operation. An ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001:2000 certified company, Capstone Turbine is headquartered in the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. area with sales and/or service centers in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , Milan and Tokyo. "Capstone Turbine Corporation" and "Capstone MicroTurbine" are registered trademarks of Capstone Turbine Corporation. All other trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. This press release contains "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. ," as that term is used in the federal securities laws, about Capstone's business, with regard to, among other items, an upcoming commissioning of a Capstone-made product. Forward-looking statements may be identified by words such as "expect," "believe" and similar phrases. These statements are subject to numerous assumptions, risks and uncertainties that may cause Capstone's actual results to be materially different. These statements speak only as of the date of this release. Capstone disclaims any obligation to revise these statements hereafter. Editors: Information on the Energy 2005 trade show is at: www.eere.energy.gov/femp/energy_expo/2005/index.cfm A spec sheet A detail listing of the components of a system. on the C60 and C60-ICHP models is at: www.microturbine.com/media/pdf/C60-ICHP.pdf Spec sheets on other Capstone MicroTurbine models are at: www.microturbine.com/technology/specsheets.asp Example case studies are at: www.microturbine.com/onsite |
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