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Primary Energy is an independent industrial energy provider of electricity, steam, hot water and chilled water that focuses on building, owning and operating inside the fence industrial energy facilities under long term contracts. Our expertise is the effective utilization of byproduct fuels that would otherwise be flared, capturing waste heat and converting it into useful thermal products and creating ultrahigh efficiency combined heat and power facilities. Thoughtfully conceived industrial energy projects enhance the long term financial health of our host mills, provides sustainable, low cost energy and provides highly reliable source of energy. Our goal is to be the lowest cost, highest value 3rd party energy provider for the industrial energy market place while making a reasonable return on our investment.


Cokenergy is a waste heat recovery power generation facility owned and operated by Primary Energy, providing power to the ArcelorMittal Indiana Harbor steel fabrication facility in East Chicago Indiana. Cokenergy’s combined heat and power facility recovers waste heat from an adjacent non-recovery metallurgical coke production facility, and uses this waste heat to produce industrial power-grade steam and electrical power, as well as process steam, to ArcelorMittal steel making operations. Cokenergy a first-of-a-kind facility that also handles pollution control for the flue gas generated during the coking process.