REAGAN LIBRARY'S EFFICIENT ENERGY SYSTEM CASHES IN.Byline: Daily News SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - The Southern California Gas This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Co. will present an incentive check for more than $800,000 to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library The Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Center for Public Affairs and Museum today for using a $3.5 million high-efficiency energy system, which uses gas to produce electricity and usable USable is a special idea contest to transfer US American ideas into practice in Germany. USable is initiated by the German Körber-Stiftung (foundation Körber). It is doted with 150,000 Euro and awarded every two years. heat. The new energy system was completed along with the new Air Force One Pavilion that opened last fall and now provides power to most of the library and museum complex. ``We're very excited because we feel it's great not only for the library, the pavilion and the museum, but also for the community,'' said R. Duke Blackwood, the library's executive director. ``It's more efficient, less expensive and better for the environment.'' It was initially hoped the energy savings from the generating system would pay off the costs in about five years, but exactly when now depends on the changing costs of natural gas, officials said. The library qualified for the cash award through the Self Generation Incentive Program, a state-sponsored energy-efficiency program that provides financial incentives to businesses for generating their own electricity on-site. The California Public Utilities Commission The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC; also often commonly referred to as simply the PUC) [1] is a state Public Utilities Commission which regulates privately-owned utilities in the state of California, including electric power, launched the program in 2001 in response to California's electricity crisis. It provides qualifying businesses with incentives of up to 50 percent of the costs of buying and installing electric generation systems. The library project provides approximately 95 percent of the electricity consumed con·sume v. con·sumed, con·sum·ing, con·sumes v.tr. 1. To take in as food; eat or drink up. See Synonyms at eat. 2. a. there. The electricity generated is enough to power 400 homes. The system also captures waste heat for hot and cold water, which is used for an air-conditioning system. |
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