How to Use cogeneration in a Sentence

cogeneration

noun
  • The good news was that the university runs its own cogeneration plant, or cogen, which could provide some of the campus’ buildings with power in the event of an outage.
    — Wired, 15 Oct. 2019
  • Rick's dad wanted to build an electric cogeneration facility.
    — Janet Eastman, OregonLive.com, 26 May 2017
  • Several production plants are already powered by renewable sources such as solar, wind, and cogeneration systems.
    — William Jones, Freep.com, 27 Oct. 2025
  • The museum features a cogeneration plant, which produces a combination of heat and power, using natural gas.
    — David Gelles, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2016
  • At the heart of the multibuilding complex is a cogeneration plant that recovers wasted heat to make the buildings 70 percent more energy efficient.
    — Megan McIntyre, Hana Hong, Marie Claire, 18 Apr. 2019
  • That two-year project includes a cogeneration unit, in which a natural gas turbine will power an electrical generator, and the exhaust gas from the turbine also will be used to make steam for plant operations.
    — Lawrence Specker, AL.com, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The expansion will construct energy cogeneration units, which the company says will reduce emissions by more than 60 percent at the facility.
    — William Thornton | [email protected], al, 23 Dec. 2019
  • DeFeo said the Temple sewage should be going to a facility equipped with biogas cogeneration, an anaerobic process in which methane in sewage is made into fuel, making the initiative sustainable.
    — Annabelle Williams, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • EuroNews reported that the Gulf water production is often physically integrated with power grids through cogeneration plants.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The company also makes money selling electricity from its cogeneration plant on Christian Street in Grays Ferry, though power-generation revenue is not factored into its rate request for steam customers.
    — Andrew Maykuth, Philly.com, 21 Dec. 2017
  • Similarly, in Manhattan, New York University’s cogeneration plant partially powered the campus during the city-wide blackout.
    — National Geographic, 18 Mar. 2016
  • Applied Medical in a statement said other sustainable initiatives at its Orange County facilities include using a fuel cell, a cogeneration system, a water chiller system, and programs to reduce packaging waste.
    — Staff Report, Orange County Register, 12 June 2017
  • In China, where grid electricity is notoriously unreliable, 10 percent of the country's total energy supply is in cogeneration, furnishing off-grid power to petroleum refineries, pulp and paper factories, chemical plants, and iron and steel mills.
    — Steve Silberman, WIRED, 14 June 2001

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