The CHPA is active across a range of practical areas:
Energy
The energy sector is at the heart of what the Association does. By working with manufacturers, delivery partners and customers, the CHPA is helping to build partnerships that will deliver secure, sustainable and affordable low carbon energy supplies to businesses and communities across the UK.
Environment
CHP and district heating are proven approached to securing reductions in carbon dioxide emissions, enhancing in turn the resource efficiency of the energy sector, and its customers. The CHPA also plays a role in encouraging energy literacy among businesses and the wider community. This involves raising awareness and building understanding of CHP and district heating and their key role alongside other low and zero carbon technologies in a future sustainable energy system.
Built environment
Every day, members of the CHPA bring clean and affordable energy into homes and communities across the UK. The Association and its members are playing an important role in driving the environmental efficiency of new and existing building stock across to the UK. For the CHPA, this involves working with Government to help develop appropriate policy to ensure far reaching carbon reductions are achieved efficiently across UK housing stock in addition to public and private sector buildings.
Industry and commerce
CHP has long played a part in ensuring secure and affordable energy supplies for business in the UK, particularly manufacturing industry, but increasingly also the retail, commercial and leisure sectors. The work of the Association helps deliver an appropriate policy framework of incentivises and practical support, to encourage uptake of CHP and connection to district heating schemes across the private sector. All this helps business improve its overall resource efficiency, reduce carbon emissions and boost economic competitiveness by reducing energy costs.
Public sector
The first district heating system in the UK was developed by a local authority. Public sector organisations have been core customers of the sector for many years, with award-winning schemes operating in and across cities and towns, hospitals, office buildings and universities across the country. The CHPA works hard to build capacity in the public sector, creating a better understanding of the role of CHP and district heating and the benefit they bring to local authorities and their residents. In a time of unprecedented fiscal constraint the role of these technologies – offering substantially improving energy efficiency, reducing carbon emissions and securing cost savings for the local authority and tax payer – has never been so important.