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POWER SOLUTIONS
ESA Energy projects are designed around
environmentally friendly technologies
utilizing clean, alternative, or renewable
energy sources.  These sources of energy
often include biomass, municipal solid
waste, landfill gas, concentrated solar
thermal, or natural gas.  ESA projects are
recognized for superior technical and
economic design and consist of advanced
equipment deployed in conjunction with
leading technology partners. 

NATURAL GAS TO ENERGY
ESA Energy’s natural gas powered projects produce electric power through the use of clean natural gas. With simple cycle or combined cycle architectures, ESA natural gas powered projects have the greatest scalability, being both effective and economical from 50 up to 1500 megawatts and greater. ESA’s design ensures high efficiency and excellent heat rates regardless of size. These projects also offer reliability and versatility being designed as either dispatchable or base loaded capacity. In either case, the ESA design ensures clean power generation that supports environmental objectives.

ESA Energy designs include a range of combustion turbine and steam turbine systems, including the General Electric (GE) LM6000 aircraft derivative combustion turbine-generators (CTG) as a core selection which ESA Energy has utilized in projects around the world.

ESA Energy expertise, recognized by GE, enables us to develop and commission certain projects significantly
less time.

ESA’s structured design offers operational flexibility, allowing the project to operate at near full load efficiency, while portions of the system are receiving maintenance.  ESA Energy’s natural gas project may optionally incorporate fuel storage facilities at the site to allow power generation under various conditions. 

Combined cycle architectures generates electric power at high efficiency compared to conventional power
plants, by using the heat content of exhaust gases from the combustion turbines that would otherwise be
released or wasted.   

ESA Energy combines its intelligent plant designs with advanced process technology to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide (NOx) and carbon monoxide (CO) and ammonia (NH3) slip.  Depending upon project specifics,
ESA designs incorporate a variety of emission control technologies including demineralized water injection or selective catalytic reduction (SCR) to reduce NOx to simple and harmless nitrogen and water, and oxidation-reduction catalysts to reduce CO and volatile organic compounds (VOC).  In all cases, ESA utilized advanced emissions control software systems to continuously manage and optimize the emissions reductions performance.

Environmental Benefits
Natural gas, like other fossil-based fuels, is limited and is therefore not a renewable resource.  However, the utilization of natural gas produces only a fraction of the nitrogen oxide (NOx)and carbon dioxide (CO) emissions of other energy sources, and also results in essentially no particulate matter or sulfur dioxide emissions.  Natural gas therefore becomes an attractive "transition" fuel, as the energy economy adjusts and moves from polluting sources towards cleaner, renewable technologies.

ESA Energy's natural gas power projects using natural gas are far more efficient than other fossil fuel technologies, therefore requiring less energy per kWhr produced, easing the burden on the environment. 
ESA Energy's state of the art combined cycle designs reduce fuel use by as much as 40 percent.