Initially, it is expected to provide nearly 60 percent of the tribe's electricity needs and at the same time heat and cool Foxwoods Resort Casino.Two 10,300-horsepower jet engines will propel the system, which will convert natural gas - long the tribe's fuel of choice - into electricity and steam. That, at least, is the ultimate goal of cogeneration, an approach the tribe will embrace with a $34 million project it expects to start testing this spring and to bring online in June. Initially, it is expected to provide nearly 60 percent of the tribe's electricity needs and at the same time heat and cool Foxwoods Resort Casino. Or maybe 'light green.'That, at least, is the ultimate goal of cogeneration, an approach the tribe will embrace with a $34 million project it expects to start testing this spring and to bring online in June.
Mashantucket - In terms of its energy needs, the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation - its casinos, museum and everything else on its reservation - could become an island unto itself in a few years. The co-generation process simultaneously converts chemical energy into both electrical and thermal energy. Work continues on the new co-generation power plant at the Foxwoods complex in December.
