Combined heat and power systems: economic and policy barriers to growth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Combined Heat and Power (CHP) systems can provide a range of benefits to users with regards to efficiency, reliability, costs and environmental impact. Furthermore, increasing the amount of electricity generated by CHP systems in the United States has been identified as having significant potential for impressive economic and environmental outcomes on a national scale. Given the benefits from increasing the adoption of CHP technologies, there is value in improving our understanding of how desired increases in CHP adoption can be best achieved. These obstacles are currently understood to stem from regulatory as well as economic and technological barriers. In our research, we answer the following questions: Given the current policy and economic environment facing the CHP i

SUBMITTER: Kalam A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3332257 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature