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Combined heat and power plant (CHPP), Concepts & Planning

The combined heat and power plants are especially interesting because of their high cost saving potential: in Germany they are sponsored through the law concerning the extension in power heat coupling. The power heat coupling is attractive from the economical and ecological side for the Industry enterprises, hospitals, communes, swimming pools as well as, in principle, for all buildings i.e. areas with possibly simultaneous electricity and heating need.

The following developments militate in favour of the Energy-heating-coupling:

The electricity generated by the Energy-heating-coupling becomes more and more valuable with the increasing electricity prices. In the course of liberalization of the natural gas market it is presumably to start out from just moderated increase in the natural gas price. For installations with electrical power output under 2 MWel exemption of the tax on current and oil could be applied for. For the exemption of the tax on oil the CHPP degree of use during the year must be over the 70%. This is almost guaranteed by the modern installations.

The Energy providers/Contractors can transmit to clients the costs savings, reached through the CHP, especially within the framework of Contracting projects and they could also earn money. As an operator of CHP-installations you could save up to several thousands euro a year even with installations under 2Mwel. WiRo Consultants have already proved the EHC-concept economic viability under the present conditions for one big hospital in North-Rhine-Westphalia, for an aircraft constructor from North Germany and for a school complex in NRW.

Consultation provided by WiRo Consultants in this context:

• Initial consulting (framework conditions, projects development)
• Rough analysis (data capture, "internal" and "external" Benchmarking, technical- economic rough concept
• Precise analysis (Simulation, investment determination, price pilot scheme, management concept)
• Economic and tax optimisation with Tax consultant
• Functional description (technical planing in detail)
• Advertising (Drawing up of the advertising papers, contract lay-out)
• Award (Evaluation of the proposals with recommendation)
• Supervision of the conversion
• Service (Data evaluation, Energy reports, Energy data management etc.)
• Consideration of the consequences through emmision trade, ecological tax and other taxes
• Implementation and planning
• Development and implementation of Energy Controlling concepts

Suggestions for Municipality and Energy supplier for the opening up of the Business field "CHP-Contracting":

• Analysis of the clients electricity and gas prices and direct enlightenment of the client or enlightenment of the client by the Key Account Manager.
• Provision of various Data and other aid/marketing instruments (Checklists, performance, PHP-calculator, Hotline etc.)
• Analysis of the CHPP-refences of the EPU up to now and - as far as possible - of the achieved costs saving potential, the positive effects on the environment etc.
• Description of all the CHP-systems- and supplementaries services that could be furnished by Energy Public Utility.
• Brief description of all technical components

Why having independent Consultation and independent Controlling through WiRo Consultants?

• the variety of possible technical concepts and also Contracting models make a technical and economic Consultation indispensable
• The independent WiRo consulting engineers prepare decisions and support you for operator tender, supply evaluation as well as contract negotiation and contract design
• Very often Contracting projects have to be embedded within the extensive rehabilitation concepts; due to this the picking can be avoided, especially in regard to saving-Contracting
• Especially for the public property various formalities have to be considered
• WiRo Consultants Engineers follow up the Energy Controlling and evaluate the reached Savings
• The consulting Engineers of WiRo Consultants are independent and competent