The issue

Energy efficiency is a major concern for Many educational institutions, especially universities with large campuses and escalating power demands.

But as well as potentially huge energy bills, environmentally-conscientious universities, many of which will have contributed key research to the climate change debate, are under additional pressure to practice what they preach and reduce their carbon footprint too.

The solution

As a result, there has been an increasing up take of CHP and community heating schemes within the education sector, with the systems seen as an important way of saving money and the environment.

Working on many of these projects at universities across the UK, Vital Energi has also been able to show that CHP schemes can be adapted for absorption chilling in the summer months. This utilises the excess heat generated by the CHP engines to provide cooled water for energy-hungry air conditioning units. This helps cut bills and also uses energy which would normally be wasted during the summer months, when demand on campus is much lower.

It’s these additional efficiencies, which are helping to maximise cost savings and minimise waste, that make CHP such an attractive option.

As well as conceiving, designing and installing CHP and community energy schemes, Vital Energi can also incorporate new campus buildings, connecting them to existing CHP schemes in order to harness the full potential of the CHP infrastructure.