The Endurant Advantage

Building owners can derive substantial benefits from working with Endurant Energy to implement on-site generation systems. Endurant's first order of advantage is that it can offer a comprehensive host of services to take building owners through every aspect of the on-site generation development process, from pre-screening and feasibility to finance and construction to operations and maintenance. And through its Solutions group, Endurant has the added advantage of lessons learned from Master Energy Planning and District Energy design and deployment, which helps us optimize our sustainable distributed generation systems.

The second order of Endurant's advantage is that our systems deliver real added value, energy security and environmental benefits to our customers' properties.

Financial Benefits

On-site generation systems, which are generally located in otherwise non-revenue generating areas of a building, produce strong financial returns for buildings by creating new revenue
On-site generation revenue sources may include:
- sales of electric and thermal commodity
- sales of backup power capabilities
- market capacity sales
- potential environmental or efficiency offset credits
On-site generation can serve to lower a building's operating costs by reducing wear and tear on existing chillers and boilers, resulting in maintenance and fuel offsets
By "shaving the peak" of a building's electric demand, on-site generation can improve a building's load factor and can potentially reduce the per-unit cost ($/kWh) of energy procured from a 3rd party electric commodity supplier

Environmental Leadership

Electric demand reduction provided by on-site Co-Generation translates to significant offsets of less efficient, more polluting power generation (e.g. coal and oil combustion without waste heat recovery), particularly in places like New York City, where 80% of power comes from older, in-city generation.
Using clean natural gas with heat recovery, Co-Gen systems convert fuel to usable electric and thermal energy at approximately twice the efficiency of utility-scale generators and, being on-site, also minimize transmission and distribution losses, reducing systemwide NOx & SOx and lowering an urban building's carbon footprint by up to 30%.
Every year, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the US Department of Energy award the ENERGY STAR© Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Award to industry leaders who increase the nation's electric generation efficiency through development of highly efficient Co-Gen projects. As soon as a Co-Gen System reaches the required 12 months and 5,000 hours of operating data, Endurant will prepare a joint application for the ENERGY STAR© CHP Award, which will name the building owner as co-applicant and, should the award be granted, as co-recipient.
The NYC Energy Task Force recently found that on-site generation systems offer energy and societal benefits to New York City because these systems "mitigate the need for increased generation and/or transmission resourcesÉ distributed resources [i.e., Co-Gen systems] are often the most readily available, cost-effective, and underutilized clean energy resources that can potentially reduce or defer the amount of required new electric supply from generation and transmission systems."

Redundant Power Supply

Endurant's on-site generation systems will generally provide a building with the value-added and differentiating amenity of backup power service.
Natural gas-fed generators can offer advantage over diesel backup, as fuel supply is not limited to storage on premises. Given historical uptime of natural gas supply during power outages, Co-Gen systems can be expected to run indefinitely whereas diesel generators may require refueling (if possible) after a matter of hours.