CHP in 2021: hanging on by a thread (for two years and counting)
For industrial cogenerators, 2021 has been an exceedingly difficult year. For the CHP sector, the year has evolved into two distinct halves: the first, characterised by inertia and major oscillations in production in an...
Wind power and hydrogen, a partnership for success?
The year has started with news of the launch of several projects that set out to maximise the synergies between wind power, in particular, offshore wind, and hydrogen. Particularly interesting is the fact that...
Tracker configuration, the key to reducing solar LCOE
The challenges facing the solar industry involve optimising resources to reduce the levelised cost of energy (LCOE). As a result, solar tracker selection and its suitability to the specific conditions of each site take...
Refurbishment of the high energy efficiency hybrid plant at the Parc Bit science and...
The SAMPOL Group has invested almost €3m in refurbishing the Parc Bit science and technology park high energy efficiency plant in Palma de Mallorca. An innovative combined-cycle district plant, this installation represents one of...
Two energy-efficient CHP units, burning residual methane, are commissioned in Germany
On 23 October 2019, two new combined heat and power (CHP) units built by the company ETW Energietechnik GmbH for municipal waste management company Rems-Murr (AWRM) entered into operation in Backnang-Neuschöntal. This renovation project...
Another year of uncertainty for CHP comes to a close
We closed 2018 with the approval of Royal Legislative Decree 20/2018, which had given a respite to those high efficiency CHP plants whose service life would have ended at the start of this year,...
Closing 2018 with good news for CHP and looking forward to the New Year
2018 culminates with the approval of Royal Decree 20/2018 which incorporates measures for high efficiency CHP that exceed their service life after 1 January 2018, extending it by two years, a right that will...
CHP: the change has begun…but it is not enough
These are new times in the energy sector and we must be capable of adapting to them. When the energy reform started with Royal Decree 1/2012 a few years ago, placing every renewable technology,...
High efficiency, 7.5 MW simple cycle, CHP plant for drying material in a ceramic...
Grupo Porcelanite Lamosa, via its subsidiary LEMSA (Lamosa Energía de Monterrey) has supported the investment required to construct a CHP plant installed in its ceramic tiling factory located in Benito Juárez (Monterrey - Nuevo...
Basis for CHP development
In the 1980s, cogeneration facilitated the development of the distributed energy system. However, CHP hit a major crisis in 2010. In this article, Jose María Roqueta, President of AESA, analyses the current situation and...
