If you mean other instances in the U.S., Casten has been involved in many. The biggest example we know of in the country is at ArcelorMittal Steel, which is on the shores of Lake Michigan, and gets something like 220 megawatts of clean power from energy recycling, saving about $100 million a year.
If you're talking about other countries, Denmark is the poster child: it gets over 50% of its power from combined heat & power, which is the most prominent way of recycling energy.
In terms of legal changes, Casten and others at his firm RED (including his son Sean, who's the president and CEO) are working on it. One biggie is trying to ensure that independent power companies are allowed to lay electric wires, since right now utilities are normally the only ones who can do that. As a result, it's hard for non-utilities (who might make power much more efficiently) to sell power on the open market. More on barriers here: http://recycled-energy.com/_documents/media-kit/RED-BarriersBro-v1.pdf
A bunch more links are available at RED's website: recycled-energy.com. But here are a few news pieces (sorry to be focused on RED, but that's what I know! Plus, it really is the biggest game in town.):
Nature: http://recycled-energy.com/whats_new.html#1 Forbes: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/forbes9-15-08.html NPR: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/npr05-22-08.html The Atlantic: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/atlantic5-08.html
There's a lot more, but that's probably plenty for now. :)
Good questions...
If you're talking about other countries, Denmark is the poster child: it gets over 50% of its power from combined heat & power, which is the most prominent way of recycling energy.
In terms of legal changes, Casten and others at his firm RED (including his son Sean, who's the president and CEO) are working on it. One biggie is trying to ensure that independent power companies are allowed to lay electric wires, since right now utilities are normally the only ones who can do that. As a result, it's hard for non-utilities (who might make power much more efficiently) to sell power on the open market. More on barriers here: http://recycled-energy.com/_documents/media-kit/RED-BarriersBro-v1.pdf
A bunch more links are available at RED's website: recycled-energy.com. But here are a few news pieces (sorry to be focused on RED, but that's what I know! Plus, it really is the biggest game in town.):
Nature: http://recycled-energy.com/whats_new.html#1
Forbes: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/forbes9-15-08.html
NPR: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/npr05-22-08.html
The Atlantic: http://recycled-energy.com/newsroom/news/atlantic5-08.html
There's a lot more, but that's probably plenty for now. :)