Cost and performance characteristics of small cogeneration systems
- Synergic Resources Corp., Bala-Cynwyd, PA (USA)
Small cogeneration system became economically attractive to commercial and small industrial customers and experienced significant growth in the late 1980s. Utilities have expressed increasing interest in the benefits, costs, and impacts of such systems to the customers and the utility. In particular, utilities have expressed a need to document the availability, cost, and performance characteristics of small cogeneration systems. This report documents the installed cost, availability, service factor, net output factor, net capacity factor, forced outage rate, scheduled outage factor, and forced outage factor. The performance was evaluated in a number of ways, such as by year of operation and calendar year, by system configuration, by type of maintenance arrangement, and by operating mode. In addition to annual data collected for 91 sites, detailed monthly data were gathered for ten sites. The study results indicate that the average total installed costs of small cogeneration systems are $1,4551/kW and average equipment costs are $902/kW. The average availability is 88{percent}; average service factor, 67%, and average net output factor, 93%. The study results are presented are presented in two volumes, with Volume 1 detailing the analysis of the annual data for 91 system, and this document Volume 2 presenting detailed results for ten case studies. 70 figs.
- Research Organization:
- Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Synergic Resources Corp., Bala-Cynwyd, PA (USA)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- EPRI
- OSTI ID:
- 7064193
- Report Number(s):
- EPRI-CU-6842-Vol.2
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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