Commercial and residential buildings are to reduce electricity consumption by 20 percent and 10 percent respectively, and total heat consumption is to fall by 20 percent by 2025.

If the plan will realised, a biorefinery of this scale could produce an annual total of biogas that is enough to cover the electricity and heat consumption of more than 50,000 homes.

The station's units were the first application of super reheated steam in steam turbines in the world, an advancement which gave them a heat consumption of only 9,280 BTU per kilowatt hour, the most efficient system in the UK.

Heat cost allocators can be either electronic, where two electronic thermosensors and a microcontroller are used to calculate the heat consumption of radiator by the temperatures of radiator and air in room, or evaporative, where a special, calibrated liquid in a capillary tube records the total heat output of the radiator.