Evaluation of the Environmental and Economical Advantages of Combined Heat and Power (CHP) at Production Units

摘要

Increase in distributed generation sources in the industries is the direct result of improvement in technology and the energy crisis over the world. Nowadays utilization of renewable energy resources and highly efficient systems especially including the combined heat and power (CHP) are quickly increasing all over the world. Thus, High efficiency and positive environmental aspects are of the excellent advantages of such systems. In this paper set of factors in order to evaluate the environmental advantages of distributed generation resources is introduced. Based on them a novel method for calculating the energy production cost is presented. In this method, a negative value is considered for each environmental emission according its damaging effects and the costs arising from their pollution as the additional costs are superimposed on the production cost of the systems producing such contaminators.