Combined heat and power

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-005646",
  "term": "Combined heat and power",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Combined Heat and Power",
  "definition": "1. Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. CHP is not a specific technology but an application of technologies to meet an energy user's needs. CHP systems achieve typical effective electric efficiencies of 50 to 80 percent - a dramatic improvement over the average efficiency of separate heat and power. Since CHP is highly efficient, it reduces traditional air pollutants and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with climate change. Visit EPA's Combined Heat and Power Partnership web site for additional information.\n\n2. The generation of electricity and the capture and use of otherwise wasted heat energy byproducts. A CHP system is also referred to as cogeneration.\n\n3. Also known as “cogeneration,” means a steam-generating unit that simultaneously produces both electric (and mechanical) and useful thermal energy from the same primary energy source.\n\n4. Also known as cogeneration, refers to industrial processes in which waste heat from the production of electricity is used for process energy in the renewable fuel production facility.\n\n5. Also known as cogeneration, refers to industrial processes in which waste heat from the production of electricity is used for process energy in a biointermediate or renewable fuel production facility.\n\n6. Also known as cogeneration, is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. CHP is not a specific technology but an application of technologies to meet an energy user's needs. CHP systems achieve typical effective electric efficiencies of 50 to 80 percent -- a dramatic improvement over the average efficiency of separate heat and power. Since CHP is highly efficient, it reduces traditional air pollutants and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with climate change. Visit EPA's Combined Heat and Power Resource Center Web site for additional information.\n\n7. Combined heat and power (CHP), also known as cogeneration, is an efficient, clean, and reliable approach to generating power and thermal energy from a single fuel source. CHP is not a specific technology but an application of technologies to meet an energy user's needs. CHP systems achieve typical effective electric efficiencies of 50 to 80 percent -- a dramatic improvement over the average efficiency of separate heat and power. Since CHP is highly efficient, it reduces traditional air pollutants and carbon dioxide, the leading greenhouse gas associated with climate change. Visit EPA's Combined Heat and Power Resource Center Web site for additional information.",
  "abbreviation": "CHP",
  "subject": "Built environments",
  "references": [
    "Clean Energy Glossary",
    "Greening EPA Glossary",
    "40 CFR 60.41a (CFR 2013); 40 CFR 60.41Da (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 80.1401 (CFR 2013)",
    "40 CFR 80.2 (CFR 2024)",
    "GPM Glossary",
    "Green Power Markets Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/combined-heat-and-power/"
}