Power producers across the world today face complex challenges and opportunities. Internationally tremendous population growth, rapid urbanization and the development of a middle class are resulting in enormous energy demands. At the same time, a global mandate to reduce carbon emissions is driving energy producers to seek out innovative ways to produce energy in more environmentally sensitive ways.
While gas turbines accounted for 15 percent of the power generation industry in 1998, they are expected to account for 40 percent of U.S. generation by 2020, according to the U.S. Department of Energy. Many factors indicate that annual growth of gas turbine electrical power generation will likely exceed 2.5 to 3 percent worldwide to keep up with demand.
For more than 20 years, Stellar Energy has helped electric utilities, independent power producers, municipal power-generation facilities, industrial power islands, and liquefied natural gas facilities increase their revenue by getting more power out of their existing energy assets. Through a commercially proven technology - turbine inlet air chilling (TIAC) - we can improve power producers' profitability by enhancing gas turbines' power output by up to 30 percent.
In addition to TIAC systems, we have provided district cooling systems and modular utility plants to a wide range of independent, municipal and regulated utilities.