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Centrica Business Solutions has partnered with health research centre The Pirbright Institute to deliver on-site technology that will help reduce the building’s net energy use by more than 10% by 2026.
A combined heat and power plant (CHP), which will be able to provide around 75% of the research institute’s future power needs, will be incorporated in the building.
For readers that are unaware, a CHP plant uses natural gas to generate electricity and hot water at the site, with its exhaust gases also used to feed into a heat recovery generator to provide steam. In doing so, it means the technology is “over twice as efficient as conventional power sources and can lower organisational reliance on the grid”, Centrica claimed.
This ultimately can reduce carbon emissions for the building. With having less of a reliance on grid supplied energy and heat, the CHP can reduce strain on the grid. In periods of peak demand, this means that possible fossil fuel-powered generators do not need to be used.
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