Trigeneration at Woking Town Centre

The trigeneration network in Woking town centre provides low carbon heating, cooling and electricity to a number of buildings including the Civic Offices, HG Wells Conference Centre, the Big Apple entertainments complex, Holiday Inn hotel, YMCA, Enterprise Place apartments, the Peacocks shopping centre, the Lightbox museum and gallery, WWF-UK Headquarters, and Woking Leisure Centre and Pools in the Park.

In May 2000, Woking Borough Council set up its first Energy Services Company, (ESCo) Thameswey Energy Ltd, to build and operate a gas CHP energy station in Woking town centre. Thameswey Energy Ltd (TEL) partnered with Xergi A/S, a Danish CHP design and build company to build and maintain its CHP installations in Woking town centre, and a second station in Woking Park.

Thameswey generates more than 10 Gigawatt hours (GWh) of low carbon electricity and 9 GWh of heat from its energy stations.

That’s enough to provide electricity and heat to over 2,000 households. Over 170 business and domestic customers are supplied with electricity and heat from
our energy stations. Every year, TEL saves over 1,400 tonnes of CO2 by supplying low carbon energy generation from its energy stations within Woking.

Key information

• Supplying energy to public sector, commercial, charity and residential customers
• First CHP generated multi customer district private wire network in the UK
• Set up by Woking Borough Council as a Joint Venture with Danish partners

Source: Association for Decentralised Energy