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Cogeneration
Cogeneration is the simultaneous production of electricity to power our operations while capturing useful heat or steam for industrial processes. ExxonMobil has interests in about 4900 megawatts of cogeneration capacity in over 100 individual installations at more than 30 locations around the world. This is enough capacity to supply the electricity needs of more than 2 million U.S. homes.
One of our newest high-efficiency cogeneration plants at our Antwerp refinery in Belgium generates 125 megawatts, enough energy to power the refinery as well as meet the needs of most of ExxonMobil’s other Belgian manufacturing operations. The new plant will reduce Belgium’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by approximately 200,000 metric tons per year. We began operation of a new 250-megawatt cogeneration facility in China in 2009 and another similarly sized unit is under construction in Singapore that will increase our cogeneration capacity to more than 5000 megawatts in the next few years.
