Coming Soon: Individual Customer Engagement Partner roadmaps highlighting goals and program activities (outreach & education, technical assistance, and eCatalog integration) related to promoting the deployment of packaged CHP systems.

This financing primer provides checklists of information that financiers need to evaluate CHP investment opportunities, and discusses how CHP developers can best tailor their financing approach to a specific project.

Building upon the progress of the Combined Heat and Power (CHP) for Resiliency Accelerator, DOE is initiating the Packaged CHP Accelerator to verify improved project performance, cost, and installation practices across a variety of CHP packaged systems. The overarching goal of the Packaged CHP Accelerator is to research and validate that total project costs and installation times for packaged CHP systems can be reduced by 20% or more, and that expected performance is achieved through the use of pre-engineered, technically validated systems that reduce risk for both the CHP user and supplier.

An online database that allows users to search for CHP-related policies and financial incentives by state or at the federal level. Created and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 

An ongoing series of issue briefs on specific policy topics that address barriers and promote opportunities for CHP deployment.

The DG for Resilience Planning Guide provides information and resources on how DG, with a focus on combined heat and power (CHP), can help communities meet resilience goals and ensure critical infrastructure remains operational regardless of external events. 

This series provides information on cost, performance, emissions, and other details about CHP technologies (e.g. reciprocating engines, gas turbines, steam turbines, microturbines, fuel cells, absorption chillers, etc.) and suitability for different application types.

An Excel-based tool that calculates and compares the estimated energy consumption and emissions of a user-defined CHP system and comparable separate heat and power system. Created and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

An Excel-based tool that estimates the preliminary financial performance of a CHP system based on a limited number of readily available user inputs. Created and maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

The CHP Site Screening Tool is an Excel-based tool that can provide an individual site screening assessment for CHP at up to 200 individual sites based on a variety of user inputs and pre-determined metrics.

The web-based version of the CHP Site Screening Tool can provide a quick individual site screening assessment for CHP based on a few simple user inputs and pre-determined metrics.

CHP Basics and Benefits
Basic information on CHP technologies, applications, and benefits.

U.S. DOE CHP Installation Database
A comprehensive listing of CHP installations throughout the U.S., with site-specific information on individual CHP system sizes, technologies, and end-user applications.

CHP Technical Potential in the U.S.
Reports on the technical potential for CHP, waste heat to power (WHP), and district energy CHP in the U.S.

CHP Project Profiles Database
A database containing over 130 individual CHP project profiles with relevant geographic, market sector, and CHP technology information.

DOE CHP Publications List
List of DOE publications that educate end-users, product developers, project managers, and policymakers on the many potential benefits of distributed generation and CHP, and the barriers to widespread deployment of these technologies.

DOE CHP Research & Development (R&D) Activities
Description of the current DOE CHP R&D project portfolio.

Packaged CHP Systems – Overview & Case Studies (U.S. EPA)
Overview of packaged CHP systems, technologies and benefits, and case studies of packaged CHP installations.

Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency Accelerator
Combined Heat and Power for Resiliency Accelerator partners worked to expand the consideration of CHP as a resilience solution by states, communities, and utilities for their critical infrastructure. The completed Accelerator site includes additional resources and tools related to CHP and resilience.