Enhancing environmental quality through the use of integrated community energy systems

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:6493410

Donnelly, P F; Sewell, I O

This paper deals with the environmental benefits of ICES. It discusses specific cases and demonstrates how use of appropriately sized community energy systems that combine heat and power generation both conserve scarce fuels and reduce air-pollution emissions. The goal of the Community Systems Program is to help communities develop and put into practice effective energy-conservation programs. To do this, the program develops and applies approaches to community energy conservation that: combine use of the energy resources available within a community, reducing reliance on external and scarce fuels; increase the use of fuel-efficient energy systems in supplying utility services; substitute energy systems that use non-scarce fuels for those that consume oil and natural gas; and reduce the end-use demand for energy through planning and development practices. One strategy in the program is to promote the widespread application of ''grid-connected community energy systems''; two systems discussed briefly here--those at the Univ. of Minnesota and at Clark Univ.--are shown to not only conserve energy but offer environmental benefits with reduced emissions.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 6493410
• Report Number(s): CONF-781109-24
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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