CHP vs heat pumps: Which system will win out in the long term?

摘要

Are the days of installing gas-fired combined heat and power (CHP) plants on new developments to meet our low carbon goals coming to an end? Increasingly I see large commercial landlords express a preference for heat pumps over CHP. Gas-fired-CHP had been deemed a good way to cut CO_2 emissions nationally as electricity could be generated locally, avoiding distribution losses while getting the benefit of the heat.