Plastic Omnium and BasePower worked in partnership for over a year to create a trigeneration project that would best serve the needs of the high-volume manufacturing facility. A project agreement was signed In June 2016 to install a Combined Cooling, Heat and Power (Trigeneration) scheme at their manufacturing site in Measham, Derbyshire.

The on-site CHP scheme supplies 2MW of power for use in the high-volume manufacture of injection mouldings and exterior automotive assemblies.

During the cooler months the heat by product from the power generation process is used to maintain accurate temperatures at critical locations in the plant, including the paint shop. As heat demand reduces in warmer weather an integrated Absorption Chiller turns surplus heat into chill to offset cooling loads.

Developed and fully financed by BasePower, a fully containerised CCHP system has been installed on the Measham site.