Document Type
Thesis
Date of Award
8-31-1990
Degree Name
Master of Science in Civil Engineering - (M.S.)
Department
Civil and Environmental Engineering
First Advisor
Anthony Kahng
Abstract
It could be difficult to understand electricity problems without knowing its history; how a combine of legal, administration, and financial means effects electricity in the development. The recent public law on energy-related issues traceable by this study is the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989.
In short, cogeneration was proposed to utility (as public property) from industry (as private property) under PURPA (of which National Energy Act is the legislative history). Thus, it should be clear that the problems of cogeneration is not pro or contra issues. It is a national issue. Then, a cogeneration planner has to view State regulated utility and (State) nonregulated utility /industrial consumer as constraints. They should have been in a joint planning.
A simple model was redeveloped from California energy flow for 1484 to see the cogeneration importance in structure. PURPA's norms was followed. The structure of the model was imitating cogeneration configuration. As structured by PURPA (Public Regulatory Policies Act), cogeneration is fit to have been defined between the Title I on electric utilities and the Title III on gas utilities. The study has defined cogeneration hopefully as a potency to produce an efficient intellectual leaky property in energy-power sector.
The important finding is, if public utility using natural gas is "fit" to be catagorizedas energy-consuming industry, then the structure of energy-power sector become importance. It should be fit technically, but do not force it institutionaly, thus still under PURPA. This leaky sector can hope to solve, in the long run, the energy-power problems. Cogeneration is dynamic and important since he is between electric power and heat power paths, he is between Sta.te regulated utility and (State) nonreaulated utility, and he is between the conflict of soft and hard energy technologies.
Finally, the Secretary's commitment to foster a progresive conservation program is a strong clue. PURPA "the R & D Cogeneration Project Manager" is waited to solve reliability consideration, investment constraints and equitable rates through cogeneration "the dynamic aspect". Cogeneration can hope to produce an efficient intellectual leaky property for the benefit on the near future anti-polution constraint and the mid future raw material shortage parallel with the challenging development of major coal and nuclear energy-power plants.
Recommended Citation
Gondokusumo, R. Tjahjokartiko, "A critical analysis on cogeneration policy" (1990). Theses. 2706.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/theses/2706
