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Combined Heat and Power Plants

Combined heat and power plants, refers to plants which are designed to produce both heat and electricity). UNIPEDE refers to these as co-generation power stations. If possible, fuel inputs and electricity/heat outputs are on a unit basis rather than on a plant basis. However, if data are not available on a unit basis, the convention for defining a CHP plant noted above is adopted.

Both public and autoproducer plants are included here. Note that for autoproducer's CHP plants, all fuel inputs to electricity production are taken into account, while only the part of fuel inputs to heat sold is shown. Fuel inputs for the production of heat consumed within the autoproducer's establishment are not included here but are included with figures for the final consumption of fuels in the appropriate consuming sector.

Columns 1 to 8 of the Energy Balance Table, show the use of primary and secondary fuels for the production of electricity and heat as negative entries. Total gross electricity produced appears as a positive quantity in column 9, "Electricity" and heat produced appears as a positive number in column 10, "Heat". Transformation losses appear under "Total", column 11, as a negative number.