Welcome to the NYSERDA web-based DG/CHP data system. This system includes monitored performance data and operational statistics for NYSERDA's Distributed Generation (DG)/Combined Heat and Power (CHP) demonstration projects.

The integrated database includes the following:

• Monitored Hourly Performance Data
• Operational Reliability and Availability Data
• Characteristics of Each Facility and its Equipment

DG/CHP systems offer the potential to reduce operating costs for end users as well as to improve reliability of the electric distribution and transmission system. NYSERDA's objective is to accelerate the deployment of these technologies in the market to create benefits for the state of New York. To accelerate market acceptance, NYSERDA is supporting efforts to demonstrated DG/CHP systems that show the economic, technical, and environmental benefits of these systems in a variety of commercial, institutional, and industrial applications. This database provides access to the measured performance and reliability data collected on NYSERDA's demonstration sites.

The Monitored Hourly Performance Data portion of the database allows users to view, plot, analyze, and compare performance data from one or several different DG/CHP sites in the NYSERDA portfolio. It allows DG/CHP operators at NYSERDA sites to enter and update information about their system. The database is intended to provide detailed, highly accurate performance data that can be used by potential users, developers, and other stakeholders to understand and gain confidence in this promising technology.

The Operational Reliability Data portion of the database is intended to allow individual facility managers to better understand reliability, availability, and performance of their particular units and also determine how their facilities compare with other units. Information on reliability and availability performance will enable potential onsite power users to make a more informed purchase decision, and will help policy makers quantify reliability benefits of customer-sited generation.