What is clean power? What is green power: What is waste-to-energy`s role in utility restructuring?
- Energy Answers Corp., Albany, NY (United States)
Impending utility restructuring and the advent of retail wheeling have created both chaos and opportunity in the electric utility industry, and like earlier deregulation actions (airlines and telecommunications) it promises lower rates to customers. As a result of new competition, in an industry that has never really had any, utilities are being forced to market, for the first time, what has been a commodity product. Your local electric utility is now attempting to do what Frank Perdue did for the chicken: create brand awareness. Not surprisingly, and knowing of the American people`s professed environmental sensibilities, a number of utilities have begun to position the electricity that they produce as {open_quotes}clean power,{close_quotes} {open_quotes}greenpower,{close_quotes} and {open_quotes}environmentally friendly power.{close_quotes} What do these terms mean? How does one assess the relative merits of one source of electricity from another? And where does waste-to-energy, which recovers energy and other resources from waste materials, fit in? In short, what is the best way to produce electricity while treading lightly on the planet?
- Research Organization:
- Solid Waste Association of North America, Silver Spring, MD (United States); Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA (United States); Integrated Waste Services Association, Washington, DC (United States); National Renewable Energy Lab., Golden, CO (United States); American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Yonkers, NY (United States). Solid Waste Processing Div.; Environmental Protection Agency, Research Triangle Park, NC (United States). Air Pollution Technology Branch
- OSTI ID:
- 548916
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-970440--; ON: DE97007054
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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