Onsite Power Project Showcases GE Energy's Jenbacher Technology to Reduce Emissions and Cost
TORONTO - Canadian government and business leaders today gathered near Lake Erie in southern Ontario for the grand opening of North America's first GE-designed greenhouse cogeneration plant installed to generate more reliable onsite power and heat for commercial greenhouses and help the country reduce its emissions from energy production.
Great Northern Hydroponics, a division of Detroit-based Soave Enterprises, installed the 12-megawatt commercial greenhouse power plant at Soave's sprawling, 55-acre tomato greenhouse complex in Kingsville, Ontario. The complex is located near Lake Erie's north shore in the Leamington region, about 350 kilometers (km) west of Toronto and about 50 km east of Detroit.
The high-efficiency onsite power plant, powered by four of GE Energy's Jenbacher gas engines cogeneration modules, was among seven natural gas-fueled combined heat and power (CHP) projects approved by the Ontario Power Authority in 2006 to showcase how […]

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