This site gives you information about combined heat and power production (CHP) and district heating and cooling (DHC). The website provides you with information on combined heat and power (CHP) and district heating and cooling (DHC)from a technical, market and political point of view. Its main target group is political persons, company managers and specialists, who have a professional interest in using or expanding the use of CHP/DHC technologies. The site should however also offer valuable insight into this environmentally friendly technology to persons generally interested in the link between energy and environmental protection.

The web site includes both general and country specific information about CHP and DHC in Europe.  

The EU´s target to increase CHP

CHP is considered a tool for EU in order to achieve its energy policy objective of improving energy efficiency and its environmental objective of reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The European Commission estimates that doubling the amount of CHP electricity in the EU will result in CO2 reductions corresponding to half those to which the EU has committed itself. Increasing the use of District Heating is and will be an essential factor for going from the present 9% of CHP generated electricity of the total EU electricity market to 18%. 

In 1994 the electricity generation by CHP plants was 204 TWh (9 % of the total electricity generation). According to analysis made, a doubling of the share of CHP from 9 % to 18 % of the total gross electricity generation of the Community produced by CHP by the year 2010, is realistically achievable. The environmental benefits of this would be significant. A rough estimate indicates that if a doubling of CHP share was achieved, it could reduce CO2 emissions by 150 Mt per year or approx. 4 % of the total EU CO2 emissions in 2010.