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sustainability goals using a new Veolia CHP
The Natural History Museum (NHM) has successfully achieved £11 million in energy savings and reduced carbon emissions by over 15,000 tonnes during the past decade thanks to a trigenera- tion scheme in partnership with Vital Energi.
new 15 year combined heat and power (CHP) contract is set to provide low carbon electricity and heat to Churchill College in the University of Cambridge. The contract will continue the energy services started in 1993 and see one of the latest generation of Veolia CHP units installed to provide the campus with secure energy supplies.
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The service will replace the previous CHP that had completed over 120,000 generating hours over a 22 year life - equivalent to a vehicle completing over 5 million miles or 208 trips around the earth. After years of successful delivery of electricity, heat and hot water to the campus the college has now decided to take advantage of the benefits of a modern more efficient unit to support their academic and research activities in mathematics, science and technology, the arts and humanities. The new CHP uses the latest lean-burn technology to generate low carbon electricity and heat for the campus, and will save an estimated 5,000 tonnes of CO2 emissions. Veolia’s CHP helpdesk will provide lifetime monitoring with maintenance provided by the company’s nationwide field service teams. The company already supports the sustainable goals of universities in the UK and reduces their carbon emissions by over 40,000 tonnes each year.
Commenting on the new contract, Gavin Graveson, Veolia’s COO Public and Commercial, said: “This latest application of CHP demonstrates our long term commitment to deliver energy efficiency and low carbon energy to higher education. We currently have 25MWe of CHP capacity that provides energy on over 60 University campuses, supporting their education and research facilities, and housing more than 200,000 students.” Receiving its Royal Charter in 1960, Churchill College is the national and Commonwealth memorial to Sir Winston Churchill and is situated on 42 acres in north-west Cambridge. The College is renowned for its academic standing and has produced twenty-nine Nobel Prize winners among its past and present members. Veolia is a CHP specialist with over 250MWe of CHP capacity in the UK. Veolia itself, and its specialist CHP division formerly know as Cogenco, provide clients with advanced CHP application advice and take this through to practical implementation onsite. For some applications, the company also uses available biomass, biogas supplies or byproducts.
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Featuring a 1.9MW Combined Heat and Power engine, boilers and absorption chillers, the project serves both the NHM and the Victoria and Albert Museum and is underpinned by an energy performance contract that guaran- tees minimum carbon savings and financial returns.
of its exhibits. Vital Energi's trigeneration system is designed to compensate for the low base- load of heat required by the museums in summer by using the excess heat to provide much-needed cooling for the museums' world-renowned collections.
Churchill College, Cambridge furthers
Natural History Museum celebrates decade of £11m in building-based energy savings
The NHM has very specific heating and cooling needs as it is required to maintain an optimum year round temperature to maintain the integrity
Group Sales & Strategy Director for Vital Energi, Nick Gosling commented: "The installation at the Natural History Museum now has a decade-long track record and has outperformed its guaran- teed carbon and financial savings in every year of operation. We celebrate the NHM's achievements.”
Cornwall to host pioneering local smart grid trial
ritish Gas owner Centrica has launched a £19m trial to develop a 'virtual energy market' in Cornwall that will allow local businesses to sell their flexible energy capacity to the grid and the wholesale energy market. The new programme will test the use of flexible demand, generation and storage, rewarding Cornwall's local businesses and households for being more flexible with their energy.
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Centrica will install new technology into more than 150 businesses and homes across the county, as the energy company looks to tap into a global transition from centralised energy generation to a distributed model, where energy is generated and managed closer to the point of demand.
Managing director of Centrica Distributed Energy & Power Jorge Pikunic told UKPN: “Cornwall has been at the forefront of harnessing renewable generation, but that has brought challenges to the local grid. Our ambition is to explore how battery storage, flexible demand and generation can to reduce pressure on the UK’s electricity grid, avoid expensive network upgrades and support future decarbonisation.
“This is a unique opportunity for us to work together with local businesses and homes to unlock new approaches that can give consumers more control of their energy, both here in the UK and potentially around the world. I believe this is a clear example of how the energy landscape could look in future - a truly decentralised market where energy is smarter, greener and cheaper.” The trial will see Centrica partner with renewable generators, local businesses and other large energy users to provide free smart technology upgrades.
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