CHP isn't realizing its potential

摘要

Despite the economic and environmental benefits as well as technology development of combined heat and power (CHP) systems, CHP market penetration has been stalled in the past few years. Order surveys among major manufacturers worldwide showed that from 1999 to 2001, CHP's share in annual capacity (MW) declined by 41.3 percent and 33.5 percent for gas turbines and gensets, respectively. With other distributed generation (DG) technologies gaining stronger momentum, such as wind power, which is currently not applied to cogenera-tion, CHP's share within the total annual DG market has shrunk to 23 percent, according to Darnell's forecast.