DLF pioneers use of new CDM Methodology in the building sector

Although Cogeneration is widely used in industrial facilities to integrate the heat and power needs, it is still not applied in many sectors like commercial buildings/facilities, hospitals, universities, public buildings/institutions and residential buildings complexes. These sectors collectively provide tremendous possibilities of integrating the air conditioning (mainly cooling), and electricity needs of the end users, leading to higher energy efficiency.

DLF has introduced application of cogeneration in the buildings where the electricity is produced by the captive power plants (e.g. Gas engines, gas turbines, etc.) and the waste heat from exhaust of the captive power units is used in absorption chillers for the production of chilled water. This leads to an overall improvement in the energy efficiency of the system. Currently, there is no large scale methodology available to avail carbon credit benefits from such type of projects. DLF, last year decided to develop a new CDM methodology to avail carbon credit benefits for its upcoming building cogeneration projects. The methodology has finally been approved by UNFCCC executive board titled as “Installation of cogeneration system supplying electricity and chilled water to new and existing consumers.” (AM0084). The methodology was developed in-house by DLF Utilities.