Perfect Power: Cogeneration or Combined Heat & Power

Heat is created as a byproduct of turning a fuel source into electricity. Many distributed generation technology applications can recapture this heat as useable energy for water heating, cooling and other purposes. The distributed generation technologies in the Perfect Power System will, whenever practical, incorporate cogeneration.

Why is it better?

• Efficiency: Widespread adoption of cogeneration could have a major positive impact on our environment. For example, these technologies can produce fuel efficiencies of up to 70 percent compared to current centralized power plants, which are only about 33 percent efficient.