Qualifying facilities and their effect on generation planning
Since the enactment of the Public Utilities Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA) in 1978, utilities have been required to purchase energy and/or capacity from cogenerators and small-power producers meeting FERC Qualifying Facility (QF) standards, and to operate in parallel with those facilities serving their own loads. As a direct result, the amount of generation a utility must build to meet its customers' demand and energy requirements can be impacted in two ways: by additional generating resources being built by others; and by customers' building their own generators to offset electrical purchases. This paper presents methods used by Florida Power Corporation to project both its potential loss in sales (energy and demand) and the amount of capacity and energy which are expected to be built by QFs to help meet Florida Power Corporation's future needs. Contract provisions for power purchases from Qualifying Facilities to assure availability and reliability also are detailed.
- OSTI ID:
- 6106808
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-880102-
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: IEEE Power Engineering Society winter meeting, New York, NY, USA, 31 Jan 1988; Other Information: Technical Paper 88WM179-4
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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