50 years…looking back and forward

Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference – 2015
50 years…looking back and forward
Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference – 2015
East Lansing
MSU East Lansing campus
South campus
Main campus
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Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference – 2015
MSU main campus
Simon Plant Service Area
Electric Service Area: 20 M sq ft
Steam Service Area: 17 M sq ft
Chilled Water Service Area: 11 M sq ft
Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference – 2015
District heating for safety: 1890
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Central plant comes to campus
Boiler House: 1894
Second Boiler House: 1904
Power Plant 3: 1934
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Co-generation is expanded: 1958
Shaw Lane Plant
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Reliability
T.B. Simon Power Plant is an independent power island: 1965
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System Efficiency
Steam and electric demands are out of balance and
it’s getting worse. Cogeneration is losing it’s balance.
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FRIB electric demand projection
How much will main campus grow?
Big Ten and Friends Utility Conference – 2015
Condition Assessment
Remaining life assessment…cost of maintenance and repairs
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Integrating renewables
Does the T.B. Simon Power Plant have the ability to
farm energy from the wind and the sun?
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Utility Plant Master Plan: 2016
Condition assessment
Integrating
renewables
System
efficiency
Demand projections
Reliability
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Questions?