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Dept for Environment Food and Rural Affairs

Answer

Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs what assessment she has made of the potential for (a) combined heat and power and (b) community heating in the UK in the (i) residential, (ii) public and (iii) commercial sectors; and if she will make a statement on the amount of each which is being realised. [195943] Mr. Morley: The Government's Strategy for Combined Heat and Power to 2010, which we published earlier this year, mentions several studies on the potential for CHP. None of the recent reports give a split against sectors. The Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) 2004 shows that installed CHP electrical capacity stood at 4,879 megawatts at the end of 2003. This figure attributes 128 megawatts to the commercial sector, 195 megawatts to the public sector, with the balance covering all other sectors, predominantly industry. There is no separate figure for the residential sector. A study published as part of the Community Energy programme in 2003 estimated the cost-effective potential of community heating in the UK to be around 17,100 gigawatt hours of heat per annum (GWh/yr) by 2010. The figure is split: 3,300 GWh/yr in the domestic/ residential sector; 2,500 GWh/yr in the public sector; and 11,300 GWh/yr in the commercial sector. We do not have figures for the current level of installed community heating.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

195943; 426 c1250W;426 c1254W

Session

2003-04

Subjects

Conservation Combined heat and power Housing Energy Heating Private sector Public sector

Link

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