The ORegen system will be deployed at Alliance Pipeline’s Windfall Compressor Station near Whitecourt, to generate electricity through the use of waste heat.

Construction of the Whitecourt Recovered Energy Project will begin in May 2012.

The ORegen system recovers waste heat from gas turbine exhaust and converts it into electric energy.

NRGreen, an affiliate of Alliance Pipeline, president and CEO Murray Birch said the technology recovers heat energy that would otherwise be lost to the atmosphere and transforms it into electric energy, without producing any new emissions.

"When constructed, the Whitecourt facility will reliably generate and deliver up to 14MW of electricity per hour, enough power for 14,000 Canadian homes," Birch said.

Alberta’s Climate Change and Emissions Management will provide partial funding for the facility.