Turbosteam, a wholly owned subsidiary of Recycled Energy Development LLC., converts waste energy into electric power. Since 1986, the company has installed over 180 systems that have saved our customers over $200 million in energy bills and reduced global CO2 emissions by over 4 million tons.

Turbosteam’s services

Turbosteam believes successful power projects have a single point of coordination, someone responsible for everything from conceptual design to system commissioning. Turbosteam, therefore, combines the expertise of a consulting engineer, banker, manufacturer, and general contractor to ensure that our projects deliver the optimal value to our customers.

Depending upon a customer's needs, Turbosteam can provide design optimization services, detailed site engineering (electrical, piping, structural), capital equipment, and/or turnkey installations. Contractually, Turbosteam can structure projects either as an up-front capital sale or as an off-balance sheet, shared-savings contract to meet the needs of more financially sophisticated customers.

Turbosteam’s history

Founded in 1986 as Ewing Power, the company initially focused on opportunities in New England lumber mills, where steam boilers solve sawdust disposal problems and provide steam to kilns that dry lumber. This steam often is produced at a higher pressure than required in the kiln and then is deflated with a pressure-reduction valve. Turbosteam’s early offerings replaced these pressure-reduction valves with steam turbine-generators that provide electricity.

Turbosteam grew rapidly since its fundamental value offering—recycling waste energy to make its customers more profitable—applies in every thermal-intensive industry. Turbosteam installations can be found in 18 countries and 32 U.S. states. In addition to on-going projects in lumber milling and drying, it has projects in the chemical, petroleum, pulp & paper, food processing, textiles, automotive, wood products, and waste-to-energy industries. Institutionally, projects operate on college campuses, military bases, prisons, hospitals, commercial buildings, and municipal steam plants. This breadth of experience ensures intimate familiarity with a customer's thermal processes, and it provides a wealth of best-practice knowledge to help optimize our customers’ energy islands.

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