February 20, 2006—Long committed to being an environmental leader, the US Postal Service at a ceremony recently in San Francisco celebrated the completion of two hybrid alternative power plants that are expected to cut in half—along with other major energy efficiency measures—power purchases and heating needs at two of the Postal Service’s largest facilities in California.
The new power plants at the San Francisco Processing & Distribution Center combine two solar technologies and hydrogen-fuel-cell generation, and energy efficiency retrofits at both sites that will help achieve significant energy savings.
An initiative of the Postal Service’s Shared Energy Savings (SES) program that provides alternative means to fund energy projects, the improvements at both facilities will lower annual electricity purchases by $1.2 million, or 10 million kilowatt-hours, a 46 percent reduction.
Chevron Energy Solutions, a subsidiary of Chevron Corporation, developed, engineered, and constructed the projects during the past year. For more on the company, visit its Web site.
