District Energy in Great Britain

The first cogeneration patent was obtained by Oxford Brewer Sutton Thomas Wood in 1784.

A UK Strategy for Combined Heat and Power

LEADING THE WAY - CHP FOR WHITEHALL:
New Strategy for Combined Heat and Power

District energy statistics (1993)

• District heating companies - 30
• Maximum heat output capacity - 119 MW

District Energy Systems

• Sheffield
• South East London Combined Heat and Power Limited
• Dundee University
• Southampton
• Buckingham Palace

District Energy Publications

• Small Scale Multi-residential CHP and Environmental Benefits to 2010 by Energy Savings Trust
• A UK Strategy for Combined Heat and Power
• LEADING THE WAY - CHP FOR WHITEHALL: New Strategy for Combined Heat and Power
• Combined Heat and Power in Britain, by Stewart Russell.
• The Privatisation of Electricity Supply in Britain and the Fortunes of Combined Heat and Power by Stewart Russell.
• Local Energy Supply, by Norman Jenkins.
• Community Heating: A UK Action Plan by Gill Owen.
• The Barriers to Combined Heat and Power in Europe.
• Combined heat and power generating systems (J. Marecki)
• Profiting from low-grade heat (A.W. Crook (Ed.)) (Watt Committee Report No. 26)
• Electricity Association CHP Paper
• Speech by Richard Page MP, at the PRASEG Conference Wednesday 30 October 1996 includes several references to CHP targets.

District Energy Associations

• Combined Heat and Power Association
• Energy from Waste Association

History

• 1720 - Heating by Steam for various Manufacturing Purposes
• 1784 - New Discoveries in the Application of Steam [First Cogeneration Patent]
• 1793 - Warming Buildings
• 1791 - Apparatus for Generating Steam, applicable to the Warming of Buildings.

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