CHP ensures a healthy power supply for Göttingen
15 May 2018As part of a Lower Saxony state funded programme to fully modernise the energy supply system of the University of Göttingen and its associated hospital, the University Medical School Göttingen (UMG), the first of three 4.5 MWe gas fuelled CHP units employing MWM engines is up and running at UMG. As of January 2018 it was providing about half of the hospital’s electricity requirements and 4.75 MWt, meeting its basic heat needs. The two other CHP units will be installed in the university.
As part of a Lower Saxony state funded programme to fully modernise the energy supply system of the University of Göttingen and its associated hospital, the University Medical School Göttingen (UMG), the first of three 4.5 MWe gas fuelled CHP units employing MWM engines is up and running at UMG. As of January 2018 it was providing about half of the hospital’s electricity requirements and 4.75 MWt, meeting its basic heat needs. The two other CHP units will be installed in the university.
Security of supply is a key driver behind the new cogeneration facility for UMG, which includes an intensive care clinic, and which has a heat requirement equivalent to more than 33 000 private households. The CHP system also provides a centralised cooling system for the hospital.
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