Regulatory barriers slowing cogeneration technology usage

Cogeneration - combined heat and power - and trigeneration - combined cooling, heat and power - offer "significant" environmental and economic benefits to the Australian building industry. But "a complex and burdensome connection process and regulatory barriers that inhibit them from deploying the technology" is challenging the ability of property developers and owners to integrate cogeneration, according to a report by ClimateWorks Australia.

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