Methodology and handbook for including societal benefits in rates for cogeneration and small power production: A least cost approach.

摘要

This document reports on work conducted cooperatively by the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio, The Cincinnati Gas & Electric Company, and Battelle Memorial Institute. The work was funded, in part, by the US Department of Energy to promote the development of methodologies for ''Least Cost Utility Planning'' (LCUP). The project covered in this report was designed to develop a methodology for better incorporating the intangible or ''non-economic'' costs and benefits of small-scale power production into the analysis and rate-making process. In particular, the methodology includes such quantifiable and non-quantifiable factors as social, environmental, economic, and technological impacts as part of methodology for designing tariffs. The approach deals with costs and benefits from three different points of view: the utility, the private power producer, and society. All three viewpoints are integrated into a common framework that produces only overall results. The methodology attempts to identify net social cost; it does not attempt to indicate individual costs and benefits or any appropriate offsetting payment streams. The report presents novel ways of calculating the utility and small power producer benefits, and cost benefit analysis method that can capture the benefits to all parties. 12 refs., 12 figs., 3 tabs.