These guys really seem to be making some progress. Not that they don't still have a long way to go to market, but Disenco's announcement of a deal with a manufacturer is a major step forward for this 3kWe micro CHP product.
Admittedly it comes on the same day that the UK Government finally caved in to the nuclear lobby which could screw up the entire energy landscape for the next 20 years, but it does improve credibility for a technology which has suffered from interminable delays in getting products to market.
It is a sad, but unavoidable fact that whilst investors have drip fed micro CHP, the legislators have continually raised the bar by mandating increasingly higher efficiency boilers for all homes; not a bad thing in itself, but it means that model T Ford micro CHP is competing with Polo Blue Motion ICE technology. The good news is that boilers now have nowhere to go; they have hit the peak of their efficiency potential and if micro CHP can deliver benefits against today's boilers, it is all downhill from here. The Carbon Trust report has somewhat belatedly demonstrated the carbon mitigation and economic benfits of microCHP against these high efficiency boilers so hopefully, Disenco's unit will be able to establish itself as another step change in performance for domestic energy systems.
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