Cogeneration

Book · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:6042775

Hu, S D

The purpose of this book is to assist in understanding cogeneration principles (including small power production), in evaluating cogeneration projects, and in making wise choices on cogeneration investments. Cogeneration presents an efficient way of utilizing limited energy resources because the same fuel source is used simultaneously to produce two forms of useful energy, including electricity and heat. Cogeneration also presents a good investment opportunity, for the prices of both electricity and heat and have been escalating manyfold during the past ten years. However, as with other investments, cogeneration involves market risks: the uneven and unpredictable interactions among the electric utility (the buyer), the cogenerator (the seller), and the public utility commission (the regulator) will largely determine the cogeneration market potential as well as the success of failure of many cogeneration projects. This book is intended to serve as a text on the perspicacity of cogeneration development; to identify the cogeneration market to provide guidelines on effective cogeneration system design, to evaluate cogeneration economics, to describe the electric utilities' and public utility commissions' roles in the cogeneration market, and to assist in making the cogeneration investment decision.

• OSTI ID: 6042775
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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