Trenton ICES: demonstration of a grid-connected integrated community energy system. Phase II. Volume I. Final report
This draft report summarizes an economic analysis based upon the assumption of Public Service Electric and Gas Company's ownership and operation of the ICES plant and distribution system. Therefore, the parameters of the analysis are PSE and G's standard engineering practices, standard instrumentation and controls design, standard operating procedures, and standard estimating methods. The value of electric energy was assumed to be the Pennsylvania-Jersey-Maryland Power Interconnection off-peak and on-peak incremental energy costs. The resulting analysis showed the ICES operating at a levelized annual penalty in 1982 dollars of $2.5 to $3.0 million. The draft material in this document contains two sections: the material prepared directly by PSE and G and the remainder of the workscope items. The conclusions are summarized, the main one being that the site-specific Trenton plant results in the cost penalty. A second conclusion states that although operation of the ICES, as compared to the conventional alternative of providing thermal and electric energy to the Trenton ICES Community, would be more energy-efficient, it would result in an additional oil consumption of about 11,000 barrels per year. It is further concluded though, that there are no apparent insurmountable institutional hurdles in implementing the Trenton ICES plan. The most critical open-end would be the negotiation of mutually-acceptable service contracts based on thermal rates that would be attractive to the consumers of the Community. (MCW)
- Research Organization:
- Trenton City Dept. of Planning and Development, N.J. (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- EC-77-C-02-4212
- OSTI ID:
- 6800152
- Report Number(s):
- COO-4212-4/1
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Portions of document are illegible
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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