Case study - Museums
CHP powers major savings at sustainable new museum Museum of Liverpool, UK Four CHP units have been installed to provide
Liverpool’s famous waterfront. The installation was
efficient generation at the largest newly-built national completed ahead of the museum’s opening in July museum in the UK for more than a hundred years.
2011. ENER-G will also operate and maintain the plant for 17 years.
The prestigious £72 million Museum of Liverpool has installed an advanced combined heat and
The CHP system is split between a plant room in the
power (CHP) system, guaranteeing annual energy
new building and the historic Great Western Railway
savings of more than £500,000.
(GWR) Goods Shed on Liverpool’s picturesque waterfront. ENER-G is converting the Goods Shed
The ‘trigeneration’ technology, which
into a state-of-the-art energy centre with
creates highly efficient heat, electricity and cooling,
sophisticated remote monitoring and diagnostic
will also reduce carbon emissions by 884 tonnes
facilities.
each year – equivalent to the environmental benefit of taking 295 cars off the road.
ENER-G has designed and manufactured two 385kWe bio-diesel CHP units, two 768kWe natural
ENER-G was commissioned by National Museums
gas CHP systems and installed two 850kWe boilers,
Liverpool (NML) to design and install the new CHP
an 1000kWe absorption chiller and a 998kWe
system at the Mann Island site – part of the famous
conventional compression chiller which will serve all
Pier Head at the core of the World Heritage Site on
the new museum’s energy needs.
ENER-G Combined Power Limited
The benefits of CHP in the Arts and Culture sector:
Offers financial savings over conventional energy supply
Avoids Climate Change Levy Primary energy savings deliver lower energy bills
Higher efficiency offers reduced greenhouse gas emissions offsetting the impact of the Carbon Reduction Commitment
Greater security of supply and plentiful hot water
Flexible procurement options Zero CAPEX required VAT savings Incorporate Enhanced Capital One of the ENER-G 768kWe Units at Liverpool Museum
Allowances otherwise denied by the public sector
Challenges faced by ENER-G included
The GWR Building housing the CHP
preserving the GWR building exterior in
plant will also become an educational
line with planning conditions as the site
resource in its own right with a small
is part of a protected view and designing
visitor facility where groups can gain an
About ENER-G
the energy centre to operate
understanding of the technology and its
ENER-G develops, delivers and
independently of the utility electrical
contribution to the museum’s
finances sustainable energy solutions
supply.
sustainability.
and technologies on a business to
The CHP system generates electricity
The complex energy facilities project,
and recovers the majority of the heat
“one-stop-shop‟ for all commercial and
which was funded by the Co-operative
created in the process. In conventional
industrial energy requirements, from
bank was awarded the Combined Heat
power stations this heat is simply wasted
combined heat and power (CHP),
and Power Association’s Innovation
into the atmosphere through power
renewable electricity generation from
Award for 2009 is helping NML boost
station cooling towers, much energy is
biogas, heat pump technologies,
both its cost and carbon performance.
efficient lighting, controls, metering and
Possible grant funding
business basis worldwide. We offer a
also lost along the many miles of
data solutions and energy from waste.
electrical distribution cables needed to
The museum has been designed to
bring the power to site. Instead, by using
replace the former Museum of
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CHP to generate electricity on site the
Liverpool Life. It provides 8,000 square
heat is used to provide heating and hot
metres of public space across three
water for the museum in the winter, and
floors and demonstrates Liverpool’s
air conditioning and chilled water
unique contribution to the world. It
via the absorption cooling system in the
showcases popular culture while
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summer months. The utility grid supply
tackling social, historical and
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will provide additional back up, if
contemporary issues.
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