RECEIVED

CLERK’S

OFFICE

00-10-23

OCT 262000

STATE OF IWNOIS

RE: Natural Gas Peaker Plants Hearing ROl—lO

p0~~utionControl

Board

Attn: Dorothy Gunn, Clerk

Illinois Pollution Control Board

100 W. Randolph #11—500

Chicago, IL 60603

Please consider that advanced distributed power generation technology is now in the

demonstration phase which has the following advantages vs. currently proposed turbine

peaker or base load systems;

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Nearly twice the efficiency of simple cycle peakers

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Less than I ppm NOx output

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Requires no water input(produces a small amount of water)

It would be unfortunate to have large investments made in peakers with poor

efficiency, high water use and much higher NOx emissions considering that the older

utility plants have escaped pollution controls for 30 years.

Enclosed are two reports which discuss the new technology SOFC hybrid generators.

~

member: Society of Automotive Engineers

Robert Brooks

1342 N. Jackson

Waukegan, IL 60085

847—336—8256

244—7417