type private industry energy founded westmont illinois usa 2006 headquarters chicago illinois key people tom casten chairman sean casten president and ceo products cogeneration waste heat recovery energy financing energy management website 1 recycled energy development llc red aims to profitably reduce greenhouse gas emissions by capturing and recycling waste energy especially through cogeneration and waste heat recovery . 1 overview edit red develops owns and manages energy recycling facilities . these facilities take energy that s normally wasted and convert it into electricity and thermal power for manufacturers universities hospitals and other large institutions . 2 energy recycling is considered a form of decentralized energy because it takes place on site at such institutions rather than at large remote power plants that serve entire regions . 3 the company s goal is to cut global warming pollution and energy costs simultaneously thereby providing an economical approach to mitigating climate change . 4 the company s work has been featured in media outlets such as forbes 5 nature 6 the atlantic 7 and national public radio . 8 founders edit tom casten chairman has been developing decentralized energy recycling projects for over three decades . he was founding president and ceo of trigen energy corporation from 1977 through 2000 and then served as founding chair and ceo of primary energy until 2006 . casten has also served as president of the international district energy association co founder and chairman of the world alliance for distributed energy and co founder of the u.s. clean heat & power association . casten is also the author of turning off the heat why america must double energy efficiency to save money and reduce global warming . 9 sean casten president and ceo served as president and ceo of turbosteam corporation a company that focused on small scale applications of energy recycling from 2000 2006 . he has also served as chairman of the u.s. clean heat & power association and founding chairman of the northeast combined heat & power initiative . 10 references edit http www.recycled energy.com http www.recycled energy.com main what it offers.html http www.uschpa.org http www.recycled energy.com main what it thinks.html http www.forbes.com forbes 2008 0915 054 . html http www.recycled energy.com documents news nature3 12 09.pdf http www.theatlantic.com doc 200805 recycled steam http www.npr.org templates story story.php storyid 90714692 http www.recycled energy.com main who red is thomas r casten http www.recycled energy.com main who red is sean casten retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title recycled energy development & oldid 712992003 categories energy companies of the united states navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 1 april 2016 at 07 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view