UMass Medical Gets $5.6M For Power Plant Expansion
National Grid awarded a $5.6 million check to the University of Massachusetts Medical School this afternoon to help expand its power plant, the largest incentive ever awarded by the utility company.
The medical school will put the money toward the 14,000-square-foot expansion of its cogeneration power plant, which will help service the new Albert Sherman Center for research and education. The center will be completed by the end of the year, the scholl said.
UMass is installing a 7.5-megawatt, gas-fired combustion turbine and associated heat recovery system, which will replace oil-fired steam boilers.
The expansion will increase the school's electricity, steam and water-chilling capacity by 58 million kilowatt hours, but will actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions overall because the turbine is more efficient, school officials said.
Chancellor Michael F. Collins said the incentive helped the school make a more meaningful long-term investment in the plant.
"We could have done this for less money," Collins said. "This allows for more efficient, effective power generation in the long run."
Marcy Reed, president of National Grid, said the Green Communities Act of 2008 makes such donations possible.
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