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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The simultaneous generation of electricity and useful heat from a single power source.

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  • noun The production of heat and/or power from the waste energy of an industrial process
  • noun The simultaneous or serial production of heat and electricity from the same source

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Examples

  • This generator, known as a cogeneration plant, or cogen, can reduce energy costs.

    By the Numbers: "Cogen" plants do double duty to save energy 2009

  • This generator, known as a cogeneration plant, or cogen, can reduce energy costs.

    By the Numbers: "Cogen" plants do double duty to save energy 2009

  • Combined heat and power (CHP) station: also referred to as a cogeneration plant.

    Chapter 12 2000

  • For industry, we're providing a 10 percent investment tax credit for combined heat and power systems, frequently called cogeneration equipment.

    Briefing On Radio Address ITY National Archives 1998

  • There are large cities -- of between 300,000 and 1,000,000 inhabitants -- which are already being heated by nuclear energy, and they are combining, what could be called cogeneration, to put it in the terms used at the forum, of heat and electricity.

    FIRST ENERGY FORMU 1984

  • All our efforts are increasing at the moment, both the agriculture side and increasing also, cogeneration, which is a very good contributor of profit.

    unknown title 2011

  • The resultant heat generated also warms buildings in gas-boiler-sized boxes known as cogeneration fuel cells.

    Peak Energy Big Gav 2010

  • Calpine has the largest fleet of CHP, also known as cogeneration, plants in the U.S. The

    Digital50.com Digital 50 Daily Industry News RSS Feed 2009

  • Excess heat produced in producing electricity meanwhile is piped to local households and businesses for heating using a process called cogeneration or combined heat and power

    Space News From SpaceDaily.Com 2009

  • Combined heat and power, also known as cogeneration, means capturing heat that's otherwise wasted in industrial processes or other arenas to generate more power.

    Greentech Media: All Content 2009

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  • "The production of electricity using waste heat (as in steam) from an industrial process or the use of steam from electric power generation as a source of heat" --Merriam-Webster Unabridged

    March 22, 2009