Privately-owned Power Plant
The concept of a privately-owned power plant increasingly discussed in view of increasing energy prices and understanding of the need for sustainable environmental protection is based on the realistic perspectives of tailor-made decentralised energy generation. Decentralised energy generation reaches an essentially higher degree of efficiency and lower burdening than can be reached with the large power plants of the conventional energy producers. In the meantime there are diverse possibilities to generate, as an energy producer, your own energy through combined power-heat generation both in residential units (power generating heating) and municipalities as well as in industry and commerce.
Increasing energy prices increasingly improve the ...
Increasing energy prices increasingly improve the efficiency of decentralised cogeneration heat and power plants which are available from the small CHP to the industrial CHP and which are more economical than central large power plants. In addition, decoupling from the energy market is achieved through the operation of such a decentralised plant. Deviations in the cost of fuels usually have a negative effect. Since the largest part of the power however is generated from fossil fuels, the value of the produced energy increases. Increases in the price of fuel is thus largely compensated in a slightly time delayed manner.
The degree of efficiency is primarily determined by the dimensioning and the annual number of operating hours in the high load range. What is valid here is the more the better. The profitability begins at a minimum of 2,500 operating hours. As a comparison: The average operating hours of a heating facility is a maximum of 1,500 – 2,000 operating hours.
Since a CHP is only operated if an acceptance of the heat (that is heating energy) is demanded, the operating hours for very small buildings like single family houses or passive houses are rarely enough to reach an adequate profitability, unless a very small cogeneration heat and power unit is used.
The general assumption that primarily energy is produced in a CHP and as a “waste product” you can then heat, is wrong. All buildings which have a possibly high heat consumption the whole year round, like for example butcher’s, hotels, swimming pools, industrial facilities, residential homes and hospitals are ideal for CHP. Here, far more than 4000 operating hours are probable.
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