Tag: CHP

A centre providing renewable heat to buildings and residents in Hebburn has opened. The project has been delivered by South Tyneside Council in partnership with Vital Energi and Driver Group, allowing the council to reduce its reliance on gas-fired boilers by making use of CHP, air source heat pumps and solar PV. Alongside the design […]

For the latest in his profiles of companies at the forefront of carbon reduction, Andrew Gaved travels to the Wirral to meet low-carbon CHP pioneer Fleetsolve.

Keith O’Connor, CEO of Fleetsolve, welcomes government’s commitment to biomass in pursuit of net zero. The new Biomass Strategy (published on 10th August 2023) highlights the versatile uses of biomass in building a green economy, including as a fuel for combined heat and power (CHP). With 20 years’ experience delivering biomass CHP to decarbonise buildings […]

Can you achieve energy security and onsite decarbonisation, without compromising either? The answer is yes, according to Fleetsolve CEO Keith O’Connor, and RMB Energie CEO Henning Brake, who joined an elemental panel discussion at last month’s InstallerSHOW to tackle the challenges facing today’s energy managers. Keith and Henning discussed the opportunities and challenges of the […]

Centrica Business Solutions has installed a combined heat and power (CHP) unit at food company Moy Park’s Craigavon facility in Northern Ireland. The CHP unit uses natural gas to generate electricity and hot water at the site, with its exhaust gases also used to feed into a heat recovery generator to provide steam. It means […]

Veolia’s specialist energy team has commissioned a new Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) at Rotherham Hospital as part of a 20-year Energy Performance Contract. The 500kWh storage capacity will contribute to targeted savings of over £1 million per year, provide an energy income, increase resilience of the energy supply, and enable the Rotherham NHS Foundation […]

Centrica Business Solutions is delivering a programme of energy-efficiency measures for Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, which will include the decommissioning of one of the two final coal boilers across the NHS estate. The £2.7m project will see the installation of a Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit to replace the existing coal […]

For the first time in Belgium, hydrogen will be used in a commercial-scale cogeneration plant designed to generate electricity and heat from natural gas. The pilot project will test the use of hydrogen in a combined heat and power (CHP) installation connected to a fully-operational existing industrial plant, located in Doel, outside Antwerp. The project […]

Vital Energi has been awarded a £6.58m contract to deliver ThamesWey Energy’s Woking Power Station project which will create a Combined Heat & Power (CHP) energy centre providing low-carbon heating and power to local businesses and residents. When complete, the energy centre will produce enough heat and power to supply the equivalent of 2,500 homes […]

Veolia will design, install and operate energy services at Alderley Park in Cheshire. It will provide around 45GWh of electricity and 200GWh of heat, also helping to deliver energy security and counter climate change by saving around 8,400 tonnes of CO2 each year. Part of Bruntwood SciTech, Alderley Park is home to the Mereside life […]

Centrica Business Solutions has started work on major energy project at the NEC, Birmingham, providing heat and power through the design, installation, operation and maintenance of three gas generators, including an 850 kWe Combined Heat and Power unit (CHP). The project will be financed by Centrica, with its investment repaid from the energy savings made […]