EUROPE’S COGENERATION MARKET NEEDS A BIG PUSH FROM GOVERNMENTS TO PROSPER IN THE LONG TERM
January 1st, 2014
IT is a curious irony that for an industry as technical as cogeneration that maybe the biggest handicap to its sustained growth in Europe is actually emotional. Both commercial markets and governments are swayed by sentiment as well as hard cash – and currently both influences are failing to pull in co-gen’s favour. On the private side – selling heat – the key output of CHP plants, is a tough sell: people like to make and control their own heat. And on the government side – CHP just isn’t as green as renewables – and selling subsidised solar power ...
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