Powerplant productivity improvements and regulatory incentives
Purpose of this study is to examine the benefits to be gained from increased power plant productivity and to validate and demonstrate the use of incentives within the regulatory process to promote the improvement of power plant productivity. System-wide costs savings to be gained from given productivity improvement scenarios are estimated in both the short and long term. Numerous reports and studies indicate that productivity improvements at the power plant level are feasible and cost effective. The efforts of this study widen this focus and relate system-wide productivity improvements with system-wide cost savings. The initial thrust of the regulatory section of this study (Chapters III-IV) is to validate the existence of reasonable incentive procedures which would enable regulatory agencies to better motivate electric utilities to improve productivity on both the power plant and system levels. The voluntary incentive format developed in this study was designed to facilitate a strong link between profit and efficiency which is typically not clear in most regulated market environments.
- Research Organization:
- Texas Energy and Natural Resources Advisory Council, Austin (USA); Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Center for Energy Studies
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC01-78RG06667
- OSTI ID:
- 5403977
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/RG/06667-T2-Exec.Summ.; ON: DE84003670
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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