Abstract: A cooling, heating and power system (10) includes a prime mover (12) for producing electricity having a thermal output (18) and an electrical output (20) coupled to an absorption chiller (24). A part-load, active, redundant chiller (26) is thermally coupled to the absorption chiller (24) for receiving a cooling-heating fluid from the absorption chiller (24). The part-load chiller (26) operates at maximum efficiency at between about forty percent and about sixty percent of a maximum cooling load of the chiller (26) to thereby generate large volumes of cooling very efficiently. The system (10) may direct the cooling into a multi-zone cooling-heating circuit (40) including a critical zone (42) and a utility zone (44) thermally coupled to the chiller (26) for selectively delivering the cooling-heating fluid to at least one of the critical zone (42) and the utility zone (44) of the circuit (40).