Combined Heat & Power
You may not have heard about CHP yet but you are guaranteed to be talking about it soon…
What is CHP and Why use it?
Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is on-site electricity generation that captures the heat that would otherwise be wasted, to provide useful thermal energy. The steam or hot water that is recovered in this process can be used for heating, cooling, domestic hot water and other industrial processes.
Typically, up to 65% of the energy used to generate grid electricity is wasted in the form of heat discharged to the atmosphere. Additional energy is wasted during the distribution & transportation of electricity to end users. CHP recovers and utilises this energy, rather than releasing it wastefully into the atmosphere making it both extremely efficient and environmentally friendly.
CHP replaces inefficient Grid energy with Local heat and power which is typically 80% more efficient than conventional boilers. Essential you are placing a highly efficient and reliable small power plant on site; you are becoming your own energy supplier.
CHP can achieve efficiencies of over 80 percent, compared to 50 percent for conventional technologies (grid-supplied electricity and an on-site boiler). Using Natural gas electricity is produced at 60% of your current costs and heat/cooling from the system is also produced with a 25% reduction on current costs.
