The CHP plant Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre will be an important new marker for sustainable and affordable energy for one of London's largest urban areas, The Greenwich Peninsula, which will house more than 10,000 new homes and 300,000 sq m of office space. The building has a prominent location at the entrance to the peninsula, right at the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel, and offers technically advanced boilers and cogeneration plants that supply energy distributed through a district heating network from the work to the individual plots in the area.

From a desire to demystify energy production is the engine and the associated flexible office space complemented with a visitor center, which offers an interactive learning experience for visitors. The building's floor space gives flexibility so as to introduce new energy during the building's longevity.

The large 49-meter-high chimney tower is designed as a special landmark in access to the peninsula. The cladding of the tower, designed by the British artist Conrad Shawcross, will consist of hundreds of triangular panels, each the size of a London bus. The panels are perforated and folded and is distributed over the surface of the tower so as to form complex geometric patterns that create a relief effect and play with the vanishing points and perspective. At night produces an integrated lighting design changing compositions that illuminates the structure from the inside.