Combined Heat and Power

Combined Heat and Power facilities, also called cogeneration or co-gen plants, lower costs and reduce CO₂ emissions by producing both heat and electricity from a single heat source - waste heat from thermal power plants. They capture the waste heat from conventional power plants and re-use it, thereby reducing the amount of fuel needed to produce the same amount of useful energy. This efficiency gain results in lower fuel costs and lower CO₂ emissions.

Significant Market Potential - The DOE has set an aggressive goal to have CHP comprise 20% of power generation by 2030 with current capacity at just 8%. The current energy lost from waste heat in the United States is greater than the total energy usage of Japan!

ACCORDING TO THE UNITED STATES CLEAN HEAT & POWER ASSOCIATION, COMBINED-HEAT-AND-POWER SYSTEMS CURRENTLY PROVIDE THE FOLLOWING ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE:

• Reduce NOx emissions by 0.4 million tons per year
• Decrease energy use by almost 1.3 trillion BTUs per year
• Save building and industry owners more than $5 billion per year in energy costs
• Prevent the release of over 35 million metric tons of carbon equivalent into the atmosphere
• Produce almost 8 percent of U.S. electric power
• Reduce CO₂ emissions by over 0.9 million tons per year