Utility combined cycle ''parks'' seen key to COGEN efficiency

Journal Article · · Gas Turbine World; (United States)

OSTI ID:5414120

The very best configuration for a cogeneration facility - economically, environmentally, and in fuel efficiency - is an energy park mating steam-using industrial plants with utility-owned, combined cycle plants using synthetic gas for fuel. Such a utility-oriented systems approach would spur the nation's oil conservation efforts and would benefit utilities, their owners, their ratepayers, their industrial customers, and the public at large, in the opinion of Ralph C. Mitchell, III, Vice President for Conservation and Renewable Resources for Arkansas Power and Light Company. AP and L and Mitchell have been at the forefront of the drive for new Congressional legislation permitting utilities to be full owners of COGEN projects while enjoying the same unregulated status and tax incentives as do other cogenerators.

• OSTI ID: 5414120
• Journal Information: Gas Turbine World; (United States), Journal Name: Gas Turbine World; (United States) Vol. 13:3; ISSN GTWOD
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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32 ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION
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& Utilization-- Industrial & Agricultural Processes-- Waste Heat Recovery & Utilization
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ARKANSAS
BROWN COAL
CAPITAL
CARBONACEOUS MATERIALS
COAL
COAL GASIFICATION
COGENERATION
COKE
COMBINED-CYCLE POWER PLANTS
DEUS
EFFICIENCY
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENERGY CONSERVATION
ENERGY PARKS
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
FEASIBILITY STUDIES
FEDERAL REGION VI
FOSSIL FUELS
FUELS
GASIFICATION
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
LIGNITE
MARKET
MATERIALS
NORTH AMERICA
PLANNING
POWER GENERATION
POWER PLANTS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
STEAM GENERATION
TEXACO GASIFICATION PROCESS
THERMAL POWER PLANTS
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
USA