The RETE project. Integrated public and private cogeneration
Abstract
The results of the technical and economic feasibility study done for a total energy plant to be built for the San Pellegrino neighborhood in Reggio Emilia are given. Once the energy requirements (thermal and electric) of the users was established, the kind of plant to be used was selected and some hourly energy analyses were done for such a plant to determine the best kind of operation. On the basis of economic considerations, too, the kind of operation proposed is "mixed", that is, compulsory electrical for the winter season and compulsory thermal for the remaining months of the year. Under these operating conditions the plant realizes about a 38% annual saving of primary fuel (in comparison to a conventional system satisfying the same energy demand) with a profit of about 8% (recovery time 12 to 13 years). A larger number of users would make it possible to increase profitability to something around 10% (recovery time ten years).
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- November 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979STIN...8114406A
- Keywords:
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- Electric Power Plants;
- Energy Requirements;
- Feasibility Analysis;
- Management Planning;
- Systems Analysis;
- Economic Analysis;
- Energy Conservation;
- Energy Technology;
- Operations Research;
- Systems Engineering;
- Energy Production and Conversion