Used in various industrial, tertiary and service sectors, CHP is particularly suitable for those situations where there is a high consumption of heat and electricity.
A CHP plant allows for the simultaneous production of electricity and heat from a single energy source inside a single integrated system. For this reason, we speak of combined production.
Therefore, by using the same fuel (natural gas) to generate two energy carriers (electricity and heat) it is possible to increase the efficiency of use of the starting fuel by up to 85%, with a consequent reduction in costs and CO2emissions, compared to the separate production of electricity and heat.
The use of the heat generated during the process, which would otherwise be dispersed, therefore allows the CHP plant to obtain the highest energy efficiency performance, with the advantage of being able to manage the production of energy in a continual, reliable and safe manner.
