San Diego Children’s Hospital DEGS of San Diego, Inc.

Project Highlights

  • Built, operates and maintains hospital cogeneration central plant, nearly doubling hospital’s electric generating capacity
  • Installed 3.5-megawatt natural gas-fired combustion turbine
  • Installed absorption chillers to provide 1,320 tons of cooling capacity
  • Installed two natural gas-fired boilers and a heat recovery steam generator with the capacity to supply 45 million btu/hr of hot water.

Overview

Duke Energy Generation Services (DEGS) entered into a 15-year agreement with Children's Hospital and Health Center to build and operate a cogeneration central plant for its hospital in San Diego, Calif. Under the agreement, DEGS replaced the existing 23-year-old cogeneration plant with a new central plant as well as installed boilers and chillers for hot water and air conditioning.  The central plant nearly doubled the hospital’s electric generating capacity.