Consumers could cut their home energy bills by up to £200 a year, and cut their home’s CO2 emissions by up to 25 per cent with domestic combined heat and power, according to leading experts at a major Department of Trade and Industry backed seminar in London. CHPA (Combined Heat and Power Association) director David Green commented: “Domestic CHP puts consumers in the driving seat. It gives them the choice to deliver their own green power, and to cut costs. It is the ultimate competitive tool. The challenge is to make it happen”.
BG Group Plc, GES Powerline Ltd, TXU Europe Ltd, Sigma and Ecopower have all outlined plans to offer consumers their own domestic CHP unit soon. Russell Marsh, a climate change campaigner from WWF said: “Putting Micro CHP to work will – along with energy efficiency measures – make a real difference. The government now needs to make sure that regulatory inertia does not freeze domestic CHP.” The SBGI (Society of British Gas Installers) and CHPA are calling on the government to ensure that connection and type approval procedures for domestic CHP are simple, cheap and fair, that billing and electricity trading procedures are reformed to enable customers to secure the full benefits of domestic CHP.
