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Title: Maximization of revenues for power sales from a solid waste resources recovery facility

Abstract

The report discusses the actual implementation of the best alternative in selling electrical power generated by an existing waste-to-energy facility, the Metro-Dade County Resources Recovery Plant. After the plant processes and extracts various products out of the municipal solid waste, it burns it to produce electrical power. The price for buying power to satisfy the internal needs of our Resources Recovery Facility (RRF) is substantially higher than the power price for selling electricity to any other entity. Therefore, without any further analysis, it was decided to first satisfy those internal needs and then export the excess power. Various alternatives were thoroughly explored as to what to do with the excess power. Selling power to the power utilities or utilizing the power in other facilities were the primary options.

Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Urban Consortium for Technology Initiatives (United States). Energy Task Force; Public Technology, Inc., Washington, DC (United States); Dade County Dept. of Solid Waste Management, Miami, FL (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
10130851
Report Number(s):
DOE/IR/05106-7
ON: DE93009048; IN: DG/91-303
DOE Contract Number:  
FG02-78IR05106
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS; 29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; 32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION; REFUSE-FUELED POWER PLANTS; SELLBACK; SURPLUS POWER; MUNICIPAL WASTES; SOLID WASTES; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; RESOURCE RECOVERY FACILITIES; INCOME; OPTIMIZATION; 200103; 296000; 320604; WASTE-FUELED SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC POWER; MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

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. Maximization of revenues for power sales from a solid waste resources recovery facility. United States: N. p., 1991. Web. doi:10.2172/10130851.
. Maximization of revenues for power sales from a solid waste resources recovery facility. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10130851
. 1991. "Maximization of revenues for power sales from a solid waste resources recovery facility". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10130851. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10130851.
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abstractNote = {The report discusses the actual implementation of the best alternative in selling electrical power generated by an existing waste-to-energy facility, the Metro-Dade County Resources Recovery Plant. After the plant processes and extracts various products out of the municipal solid waste, it burns it to produce electrical power. The price for buying power to satisfy the internal needs of our Resources Recovery Facility (RRF) is substantially higher than the power price for selling electricity to any other entity. Therefore, without any further analysis, it was decided to first satisfy those internal needs and then export the excess power. Various alternatives were thoroughly explored as to what to do with the excess power. Selling power to the power utilities or utilizing the power in other facilities were the primary options.},
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year = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1991},
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