Sustainable Community Energy System

From the Wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community_energy_system

"A sustainable community energy system is an integrated approach to supplying a local community with its energy requirements from renewable energy or high-efficiency co-generation energy sources. The approach can be seen as a development of the distributed generation concept.

Such systems are based on a combination of district heating, district cooling, plus 'electricity generation islands' that are interlinked via a private wire electricity system (largely bypassing the normal power grid to cut transmission losses and charges, as well as increasing the robustness of the system). The surplus from one generating island can therefore be used to make up the deficit at another." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_community_energy_system)

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