FutureWorld Energy offers a complete line of packaged cogeneration systems for energy management and power cost reduction.
Cogeneration offers significant benefits and is energy-efficient compared with buying electricity from a utility. FWE cogeneration units take a decentralized approach supplying electricity and heating that can be powered by natural gas, bio-natural gas or liquid gas.
Cogeneration is a good example of how business needs and the markets encourage investments to reduce costs, generate income and achieve significant environmental gains. Cogeneration has been proven to be a sound investment your pocket book will benefit and so will the environment.
What is Cogeneration? Cogeneration (Combined Heat and Power or CHP) is the simultaneous production of electricity and heat, both of which are used. The central and most fundamental principle of cogeneration is that, in order to maximize the many benefits that arise from it, systems should be based according to the heat demand of the application. This can be an individual building, an industrial factory or a town/city served by district heat/cooling. Through the utilization of the heat, the efficiency of cogeneration plant can reach 90% or more. Cogeneration therefore offers energy savings ranging between 15-40% when compared against the supply of electricity and heat from conventional power stations and boilers:
Cogeneration optimizes the energy supply to all types of consumers with the following benefits to both users and society at large:
- Increased efficiency of energy conversion and use. Cogeneration is the most effective and efficient form of power generation
- Lower emissions to the environment, in particular of CO2, the main greenhouse gas. Cogeneration is the single biggest solution to the Kyoto targets
- Large cost savings, providing additional competitiveness for industrial and commercial users, and offering affordable heat for domestic users
- An opportunity to move towards more decentralised forms of electricity generation, where plant is designed to meet the needs of local consumers, providing high efficiency, avoiding transmission losses and increasing flexibility in system use. This will particularly be the case if natural gas is the energy carrier
- Improved local and general security of supply – local generation, through cogeneration, can reduce the risk that consumers are left without supplies of electricity and/or heating. In addition, the reduced fuel need which cogeneration provides reduces the import dependency – a key challenge for Europe’s energy future
- An opportunity to increase the diversity of generation plant, and provide competition in generation. Cogeneration provides one of the most important vehicles for promoting liberalization in energy markets
- Increased employment – a number of studies have now concluded that the development of CHP systems is a generator of jobs.