Industrial Combined Heat and Power (CHP)
The Industrial Technologies Program works with DOE's Distributed Energy Program to support increased industrial use of combined heat and power (CHP) technologies. CHP systems are used to produce power and then recover the resultant waste heat for use in processes. This recovered heat can be used to produce mechanical energy, heat or cool water, make steam, or for humidity control in buildings. The overwhelming majority of CHP systems currently installed in the U.S. are used for industrial applications, and CHP accounts for over 92 percent of the total industrial power generated on site. The Combined Heat and Power Subprogram aims to improve CHP efficiency through R&D and to raise awareness of the energy, economic, and environmental benefits of CHP through tools and publications.
Please visit DOE's Distributed Energy Technologies Combined Heat and Power Subprogram.
Industrial Combined Heat and Power Publications:
The following documents are available as Adobe Acrobat PDFs. Download Adobe Reader.
- Cooling, Heating, and Power for Industry: A Market Assessment; prepared by Resource Dynamics Corp. for the Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (PDF 991 KB)
- The Market and Technical Potential for Combined Heat and Power in the Industrial Sector; Prepared by ONSITE SYCOM Energy Corporation for the Energy Information Administration, January 2000 ( PDF 234 KB)
- National CHP Roadmap (PDF 2.2 MB)