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( 1,600 additional MW between now
and 2017).
U.K. District Energy
Association Looks to Future
The United Kingdom’s district energy
industry saw a number of developments in
late November. The U.K. Department of
Energy and Climate Change (DECC) released
its new annual business plan, marking out
a new approach: The DECC will now priori-tize support for those technologies that are
most effective at meeting its long-term
decarbonization and energy security objectives. The U.K. District Energy Association
(UKDEA) expects this new pragmatism will
work significantly to the advantage of district energy.
The European Union’s new Energy
2020 strategy was also released in
November, stating as a key action that
efforts are needed to substantially increase
the uptake of high-efficiency cogenera-
tion, district heating and cooling. The
UKDEA therefore recommends that DECC
consider introducing targets for nation-
wide deployment of district energy, to
counteract the ‘renewable-centric’ view
that can be promoted by the existing
renewable targets standing in isolation.
This would increase awareness of district
energy among developers and local
authorities, and help them to consider on
a case-by-case basis what is the most
effective way to reduce energy consump-
tion and greenhouse gas emissions.
Citizens Thermal to Serve
New Wishard Hospital
Health and Hospital Corp. of Marion
County in Indianapolis has signed a 20-year
agreement with Citizens Thermal, a division
of Citizens Energy Group, for heating and
cooling services for the new $754 million
Wishard Memorial Hospital complex. The
complex is scheduled to open in 2013. As
part of the agreement, Citizens Thermal
will provide district steam and chilled-water
service to Wishard and build, own and
operate a new central boiler and chiller
plant adjacent to the hospital.
Along with supporting the hospital’s
thermal energy needs, the plant will provide a source of redundant cooling capacity
for other institutions in the area. Citizens
will begin construction of the new central
plant in January 2011 and provide heating
and cooling service during the hospital
construction process.
Leaders of the project have registered
the 1. 2 million-sq-ft hospital campus to
earn LEED® (Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design) Silver certification,
which will make it the first newly built
hospital in Indiana and one of 10 in
America certified as LEED Silver or higher.
The new Wishard complex will feature
a 327-bed inpatient hospital adjoining
a 200-room ambulatory care building, a
90-bed treatment room emergency department with a 20-bed clinical decision unit
and Wishard’s Adult Level I Trauma Center,
a faculty and administration building, and
a 2,700-car parking garage.
Study Released on Asia
Pacific Cogen Market
New analysis from Frost & Sullivan
points to cogeneration or combined heat
and power as the distributed power
generation system of choice in the Asia
Pacific market. The market’s emergence
as the manufacturing hub of consumer
electronics, electronic devices, textiles,
automobiles and semiconductors has
given a boost to CHP’s prospects in the
region. The study found that the Asia
Pacific market for industrial and commercial cogeneration had a total installed
capacity of 21,523 MW in 2009, which is
estimated to reach 26,691 MW in 2016.
As some countries are highly
dependent on oil exports, cogeneration
helps put indigenous sources of fuel
such as biomass and biogas to best use.
According to Frost & Sullivan, this augurs
well for the Australian market, with its
abundant natural gas reserves, and for
Southeast Asia, which has a huge reserve
of biomass resources such as bagasse, rice
husk, wood waste and palm oil waste.
The study, titled Asia Pacific Industrial
and Commercial Cogeneration Market, is
part of Frost & Sullivan’s Energy & Power
Growth Partnership Service Program.
For more information on this research,
email djeremiah@frost.com.
Cogeneration: Foundation of
Europe’s 2050 Energy Policy
COGEN Europe has released a study
showing that cogeneration is fundamental
to any scenario leading to a decarbonized
energy sector for Europe. A key part of
the European Union’s energy efficiency
strategy, cogeneration is supported by the
EU’s Cogeneration Directive 2004/08/EC.
