PROSPECTS FOR DECENTRALIZED CHP PLANTS IN THE 25 MW RANGE IN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY

摘要

Liberalisation in the European energy market has resulted in energy supply companies throughout Europe competing with one another. The Europe-wide opening up of power networks means that every electricity consumer has the option of obtaining power from the supplier of his choice. To use the different network levels, payments have to be made to the network operators. An increasing number of local companies and industrial plants have opted to change their supplier, or have even decided to give up generating power in their own plants owing to the price pressure in the energy market, as obtaining electricity from an outside supplier has turned out to be cheaper. For many companies, the question is thus now one of whether the provision of power and heat in a single plant of their own (co-generation plant) is preferable to obtaining a power supply via the power grid and producing heat in simple steam boilers.