Coast Guard Yard’s project will meet the renewable energy requirements for the entire Department of Homeland Security for the next four years. The largest Energy Savings Performance Contract with a 15 year price tag of $41 million will include contractor maintenance and operation of the co-generation plant that produces both electricity and steam.
Four methane powered generators in the new co-generation plant building are fed by a one mile long methane pipeline from the Baltimore City owned Quarantine Road Landfill just to the north of the Yard campus. Each generator will be able to generate one megawatt of electricity.
Since the shipyard will make its own electricity and steam, there will be less demand on the regional electric grid, additionally for national security during peak electric load days. The Coast Guard said this plan is equivalent to removing over 33,000 cars from the road in greenhouse gas reduction.
