ATLANTA, GA — At the 2001 ASHRAE Winter Meeting, Roy Albrecht of the New York State Energy Research and Develop-ment Authority (NYSERDA, Albany, NY) chaired an informative session titled “Self-Powered Heating Systems: Saving Electric-ity and Improving Reliability.” Albrecht noted, “With the California energy crisis, this subject has taken on more importance.”
Discussing the evolution of self-powered appliances, David Brown-ell of Yankee Scientific, Inc. (Medfield, MA) talked about heaters that produce their own power, generators that also produce heat, and battery-powered appliances.