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• October 30th, 2009:
  Now for the commercial sector

  Cogeneration in Australia has been largely limited to the industrial sector, which can use the heat from production processes for electricity or hot water. But it also has much to offer the commercial sector, saving energy and cutting emissions. Read more…

• October 29th, 2009:
  Article: Retrofit of Sydney Building Includes Cogeneration Plant

  Cogent Energy has designed and installed a cogeneration plant at a 40,000m2 office building in Sydney. The company also designed the electrical and mechanical interfaces between the cogeneration plant and the building’s distribution systems. The building owner is Mirvac. Read more…

• October 27th, 2009:
  Article: Cogen Comes To Australian Offices

  Commercial buildings in Australia have not formed an active market for cogeneration technology – until last year, when one company started to use a particular business model (against a background of growing demand for ‘greener’ building operation and rising electricity prices) to change this. Nalin Wickramasinghe writes on progress and the  challenges still to be faced.
  Cogeneration in general, and commercial building cogeneration specifically, has had extremely low penetration in the Australian market. There is approximately 307 MW of installed capacity in the state of New South Wales1, most of which is accounted for by industrial applications, and almost no installed capacity in commercial buildings and offices. There are several reasons for this situation: Read more…