Combined Heat and Power for District Heating

Combined Heat and Power for District Heating Synopsis

This book will provide an overview of combined heat and power (CHP) and district heating (DH) and its potential application for heating buildings and industrial processes, including the implications for energy policy. It will describe why combined heat and power is interesting even in an era of low carbon energy, how it is linked to district heating and why these two technologies together may be an important component of heating legacy buildings in a low-carbon future. The book will explain why district heating can take in any form of heating, not only from power stations (which could be powered by renewable hydrogen) but from waste combustion, industrial waste heat, solar, wind or biofuel or biomass energy. It will also show how, when coupled with the availability of vast and cheap storage, CHP/DH can be a key enabler of renewable energy and energy efficiency.