Micro Combined Heat and Power (CHP) has been identified as a key element of the UK Government’s Energy Strategy. It offers environmental, economic and social benefits and fulfils the joint objectives of Carbon mitigation, elimination of fuel poverty and security of supply. The first commercial products are now being installed in UK homes and monitoring will be undertaken to evaluate the performance of a range of micro CHP technologies. However, in order to achieve the full potential for this technology, a number of regulatory and structural changes are required. This paper summarises the potential, current status and proposed activities required to exploit micro CHP in the UK housing stock.
