Renewable-energy resource planner: a guide for evaluating and financing industrial renewable energy measures
This guide is designed to assist firm to evaluate, plan and finance renewable energy measures. Major concepts discussed in the guide include: economic factors to consider in analyzing the feasibility of investing in energy-saving or renewable energy equipment; examples for evaluating payback, cash flow and return on investment; renewable energy technologies for industrial applications; case examples of industrial renewable energy projects; important environmental, legal and regulatory considerations; available tax benefits for renewable energy and energy-saving equipment; options for financing or leasing energy equipment; and, sources of additional information. This guide emphasizes renwable energy technologies that have immediate, cost-effective applications in industry, including the direct combustion and gasification of biomass (wood and other organic material) and the conversion of industrial waste products to energy. It also covers several other renewable energy technologies - solar thermal energy, photovoltaics and wind energy conversion systems - which have limited industrial applications at present, but which will become increasingly competitive with oil and natural gas as the prices of these fuels rise in coming years.
- Research Organization:
- Planning and Management Associates of Greater Washington, Inc., DC (USA); Solar Energy Research Inst., Golden, CO (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-77CH00178
- OSTI ID:
- 6360519
- Report Number(s):
- SERI/SP-19443-1; ON: DE83012921
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions are illegible in microfiche products
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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