About the CHP Partnership
- What Is the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership?
- Why EPA Supports CHP
- What We Offer
- Join Us
- Already a Partner?
- CHP Partnership Accomplishments
What Is the EPA Combined Heat and Power Partnership?
Through the CHP Partnership, EPA’s CHP team works with CHP stakeholders to reduce air pollution and water usage associated with electric power generation by increasing the use of CHP. EPA’s goal is to remove policy barriers and to facilitate the development of new projects in the United States and its territories by promoting the economic, environmental, and reliability benefits of CHP. We provide tools, policy information, and other resources to energy users; the CHP industry; clean air officials; and other clean energy stakeholders.
EPA’s CHP team welcomes the following types of organizations as Partners:
- CHP project developers, consultants/engineers, and equipment manufacturers
- Facility owners and managers in the industrial, commercial, district energy, and multi-family residential sectors
- Clean air officials
- Energy, environmental, and economic development agencies
- Utilities
- Nongovernmental organizations
- Financiers
Why EPA Supports CHP
EPA promotes greater use of CHP because significant cost-effective emissions reductions can be achieved by increasing the efficiency of the nation's energy supply. CHP systems achieve fuel use efficiencies of 60 to 80 percent, compared to a typical separate heat and power (i.e., purchased grid electricity from the utility and an on-site boiler) efficiency range of 45 to 55 percent. This improvement in efficiency translates to:
- Reduced total fossil fuel use
- Reduced emissions of greenhouse gases and other air pollutants
CHP also consumes less water than conventional electric power generation.
What We Offer
- Information about CHP and its benefits
- Technical tools and resources such as the CHP Screening Tool(3 MB) , CHP Energy and Emissions Savings Calculator, Catalog of CHP Technologies, and sector-specific information (e.g., Opportunities for Combined Heat and Power at Wastewater Treatment Facilities: Market Analysis and Lessons from the Field)
- Information about state and federal CHP policies and incentives
- Advice on CHP project development
- Energy Star CHP Awards
- CHP news and webinars
Additional resources and benefits are available to Partners.
Join Us
Already a Partner?
- Update my info
- Partner responsibilities
- CHP Partnership logo guidelines
- Partner videos
- Partner case studies
CHP Partnership Accomplishments
Accomplishments from 2001 through 2016 include:
- Assisting 1,194 CHP projects, representing 7,887 megawatts (MW) of new CHP capacity
- On a cumulative basis, these projects have avoided the emission of 190 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent