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Welcome to the Combined Heat and Power Association web site. We invite you to have a look around and give us your feedback.The Combined Heat and Power Association works to promote the wider use of combined heat and power and community heating. Clean and efficient Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is already in use on close to 1,400 locations around the UK. Read the Prime Minister's support for CHP
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CHP makes lower cost energy to keep people warm and make factories more competitive. It also produces much less carbon dioxide than other ways of providing heat and power. In fact, if the level of CHP was increased to the Government's target of 10,000 MW, the UK could be one third of the way to meeting its international commitments to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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March 2007: Royal Commission Backs CHP The CHPA welcomes the findings of the Built Urban Environment section of the Royal Commission on Environmental pollution. The Association agrees that decentralised energy represents one of the greatest opportunities to lower Carbon emissions and therefore lessen the environmental impacts of inefficient energy use. We therefore support the reports recommendation that the new Planning Policy Statements on Climate Change should require all new developments beyond a certain size to incorporate a strategic approach to energy planning and provision which makes full use of opportunities to optimise the use Combined Heat and Power |
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March 2007: Neath Port Talbot Council Installs CHP Neath Port Talbot Council has taken delivery of three CHP units, all of which have been funded by the Welsh Assembly (installation covered by council.) It is the only programme of its kind in Wales that shows the benefits of on site micro generation systems. One will be installed in Dan Y Bryn home for older people in Pontardawe and the other two in Pontardawe swimming pool and the Vale of Neath leisure centre. Dalkia has installed the 210kWe electricity capacity, 340kWth heating capacity devices and will be responsible for maintenance. The CHP scheme now reduces annual carbon dioxide emissions by 300 tonnes and produces energy cost savings of £45,000 per annum. |
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March 2007: Cogenco Supply Yorkshire Water with CHP Cogenco has been awarded a comprehensive framework agreement with Yorkshire water. They will supply, install and maintain 4 new units (in addition to the 14 existing units.) All the units run on biogas, which is generated by Yorkshire Water from their wastewater treatment programme. |
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February 2007: CHP Plant for UPM's Caledonian Paper Mill, Scotland UPM is building a biomass based CHP plant at Caledonian Mill, Scotland at the cost of £59 million. . It will replace the coal-fired burner when it becomes operational in 1st quarter 2009. It will generate 215 Gwh of renewable energy thereby reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 75,000 tonnes per annum. The Scottish executive is providing £210 million under the Regional Selective Assistance Scheme. The new power plant at Caledonian mill will also significantly assist the Scottish Executive in achieving its 2010 national renewables generation target of 18%. UPM has reduced its production related fossil CO2 emissions by 25 % during the last ten years by investing in Biofuel based energy generation and in energy efficiency. |
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January 2007: "Green Attraction" Swansea Leisure Centre
embraces CHP. The refurbishment of Swansea Leisure Centre is a £32 million project due for completion in December 2007. The development places CHP at the heart of it's energy saving initiative with a 300 KWe gas-fired, combined-heat-and-power plant, which will provide electricity and additional heat to a network of pools, a multi-purpose hall for sports, conferences, exhibitions and concerts, a health-spa and a treatment-centre, café-bar, an internet-café, party-and function-rooms and a fitness-arena with more than 160 items of the latest kinds of equipment and monitoring-systems.The project was selected by the Carbon Trust for its "Low-Carbon Buildings Acceleration Programme" (LCBAP), which promotes refurbishment projects that have a key focus on minimising, throughout the design, construction and occupation phases, the carbon-emissions from those buildings. For Further Information and the Press Article please click here. |
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January 2007: CHP at the 2012 Olympics The Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) today announced ground-breaking plans to ensure the 2012 Games are the ‘greenest’ ever. The 'Sustainable Development Strategy' . launched today at 10 Downing Street, includes targets for low carbon, low waste, and sustainable transport for building Games venues and infrastructure. The Strategy states that "It is proposed that energy to the Olympic Park and Village will be supplied efficiently through a gas-fired Combined Cooling Heat and Power plant (CCHP), housed at Kings Yard, on the western edge of the Park...After the Games there will be opportunities for this network to grow into surrounding areas and for extra sources of heat and power to be added. The CCHP will allow for a further reduction in carbon emissions of some 20 to 25 per cent over current building regulations and industry standards." Read the full press release here. Read the Sustainable Development Strategy here. |
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January 2007: European Commission Sets out a New Impetus for the Internal
Energy Market President Barroso outlined his European energy initiative today. In a keynote speech Mr Barroso pledged a series of targets and commitments to increase the competition of Europe's energy markets and cut carbon emissions. The following targets were set: EU members are to cut their carbon emissions by 20% by 2020 (1990 baseline), there should be a 20% increase of renewables in the EU energy mix by 2020, 10% of Europe's transport fuel should be derived from biofuels by 2020 and there will be a 20% increase in energy efficiency by 2020. This will instil confidence for long term investment for energy efficient technology such as CHP. The press release for today's announcement can be viewed here and associated memoranda can be accessed here. |
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2007: Defra Opens Up Bio-Energy Capital Grants Scheme Third Round
- Support for Biomass Heat Defra today opened a ten week application window for the third round of the Bio-energy Capital Grants Scheme. The £10-15m scheme was announced this Spring in the new Climate Change Programme and the Government response to the Biomass Task Force report. It will support the installation of biomass-fuelled heat and CHP projects in the industrial, commercial and community sectors, including local authorities and schools. More information here. |
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2007:EUETS - Defra Phase I Year 1 Summary Report Published Defra are preparing extensive reports on NAP I Year I (2005) reports - 20 will published in total (reflecting the different sectors in NAP I). The first was published on 20 December and is a useful 20-page summary over the whole piece. It can be downloaded here. On CHP it says the following: "1.7.1 - Treatment of CHP plants - critics have argued that the Phase I classification and allocation methodology did not reflect the fact that future growth and emissions of combined heat and power (CHP) plants differ from those of non-CHP installations in the same host sectors. For Phase II, a separate sector for good-quality CHP (GQ CHP) has been created to improve the equity of treatment across CHP plants, and particularly the transparency and accuracy of setting the CHP sector cap. Despite these changes, some sectors of industry are still concerned about the treatment of CHP plants and the consequences of the Phase II allocations to CHP." |
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2007: Revisions to Government's Emissions Trading Plan On 21 December 2006 the Government released a revised version of the list of allocations to UK installations under the Phase II (2008 - 2012) National Allocation Plan (NAP) Revisions were made as a result of new information which came through to Government via responses to the August NAP. A number of changes have been made to the CHP sector including revisions to the New Entrant projections, a change in the size of the CHP NER ring-fence, and a revision to the number of allowances contributed by the CHP sector to the ring-fence. The revised list of installation allocations (which are being consulted upon - deadline for responses is 12 January) and report highlighting the full range of changes made to the NAP are downloadable here. |
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January 2007: Burnham Announces £100m Funding to Boost NHS Energy
Efficiency Health Minister, Andy Burnham has released a £100m of extra funds to help the NHS improve energy efficiency and decrease its carbon emissions. CHP has been highlighted as a key technology in helping improve hospital energy efficiency. This announcement was made at the same time as the publication of a new energy performance report for the NHS which showed measurable progress against energy efficiency and carbon emission targets. Read the full press release, which highlights two CHP hospital schemes, here. The energy performance report 'Statistics on energy performance and carbon and CO2 emissions - NHS England 1999/00 to 2004/05 (with prediction to 2009/10)' can be purchased from www.tsoshop.co.uk |
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January 2007: CHP & District Heating Schemes Drive Greener Local
Authorities The Guardian has drawn up a list of Britain's 10 best performing councils on green issues and have highlighted that half of these are using CHP and district heating to lower emissions and save local tax payers money. The 'top ten' list was compiled in consultation with the Energy Saving Trust (EST), the Carbon Trust, the Local Government Association and the Improvement Development Agency. For the full news story please use the following link. |
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