The economics of power-heat coupling as used in thermal power plants are easy to understand: Conventional power stations loose a large portion of the energy used to generate power to the environment as so-called waste heat. Thermal power plants use this energy effeciently and on location for space and process heating. Instead of the 30% energy efficiency typical of conventional systems, thermal power plants can achieve efficiency ratings of more than 90%!

The attractiveness of owning your own thermal power plant is further increased by numerous subsidy programs, low-interest credit and tax breaks which make the decision to invest in one not only ecologically, but also economically sound. The amortization time for a well-scaled and professionally planned system can be as short as 2 to 4 years.

An overview of subsidies for operators of thermal power plants as available on the “Subsidies” page.

To see the precise effects of cost savings and sibsidy programs, please take a look as some example calculations on the “Example Calculations” page, taken from several real systems actually in use.