Cogeneration controversy rages on

Journal Article · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1981 · Energy (Stamford, Conn.); (United States)

OSTI ID:6600825

Greenberg, G

Utilities are divided in their support of cogeneration. Reported are the views of three major utilities: TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), PGandE (Pacific Gas and Electric, San Francisco), and Con Ed (Consolidated Edison, New York). A TVA Cogeneration Project Team assessed the cogeneration operations in the TVA region in 1979, and determined that: A reasonably aggressive program to expand cogeneration operations in the TVA service area could result in a total capacity increase of 1865 MW over the next 20 years. The resultant heat rate improvement could reduce fuel requirements for electric power production in the region by approximately 2%. PGandE sees fundamentally attractive features to cogeneration in today's economy. Chief among these are the possibilities cogeneration provides for developing new supplies of electricity with shorter lead times, with easier siting, and with advantageous fuel and air pollution control regulations. Cogeneration also holds out the possibility for obtaining new power supplies by purchase from others rather than by investing in new power generating facilities. Con Ed believes that no encouragement, no benefits, no special exemptions, no tax shelters can be justified for cogeneration facilities that cause greater dependence on imported oil, dirtier air, higher energy costs and inequitable taxation. It believes that cogeneration will frequently have negative results, particularly in the principal urban applications; commercial, residential or small industrial, and only in rare cases will any real benefits materialize.

• OSTI ID: 6600825
• Journal Information: Energy (Stamford, Conn.); (United States), Vol. 6:4
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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