The UK government this week said that one-tenth of the UK’s electricity will come from power plants that recycle waste heat within the next three years, wrote the Financial Times.
Combined heat and power, commonly referred to as CHP, captures the energy wasted in electricity generation and pipes it local buildings. The UK government announced that this will represent 17% of the country’s electricity in the future. According to a 2005 report, there were then 1,500 CHP plants in the country.
The government offers incentives to CHP, including exemption from the climate change levy. But according to the director of the Combined Heat and Power Association in the UK, Graham Meeks, these are not enough and, because of that, leading power companies are lining up to build a new generation of less efficient, power-only facilities.
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