Tulane University Freeman School BLOG

Only a few lazy Sunday’s left before I’m outta here!

Last Friday my Electricity Markets (Syllabus .doc) class toured Tulane’s co-gen (co-generation) power plant. It’s about a 5 mW plant, which is enough to run the entire school in the winter. The generator hasn’t been run since Katrina because NatGas prices are too high - around $10-11 per MMBTU.

This has been my favorite class this semester. It’s taught by a real world Entergy guy, and covers topics pertinent to today’s power markets, trading, buying, refining, generation, etc. It complimented the Renewable Energy course I took earlier this Spring very well. Too bad they’re dumping that course down to the undergrad level for next year (dumb move).

Here’s a video of the less glamorous, but most important, parts of Tulane that help to keep us warm, cool, and the lights on. Who knew it took 12,000 gallons a minute to A/C the entire campus?!?

-Joel, joel@tulanemba.org

Tulane CoGen Plant from joel on Vimeo.

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