COMBINED PRODUCTION OF HEAT AND POWER (COGENERATION)

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COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
COMBINED PRODUCTION Ö
AND
(COGENERATION
Edited by
J. SIRCHIS
ELSEVIER APPLIED SCIENCE COMBINED PRODUCTION OF HEAT AND POWER
(COGENERATION) Proceedings of a European seminar organised by
— the Commission of the European Communities, Directorate-General for
Energy
and
— the Instituto para la Diversificacion y Ahorro de la Energia (IDAE)
with the cooperation of
— Gomez Pardo Foundation's Energy Commission
and held in Madrid, Spain, 10-11 October 1989.
Particular thanks are due to Mr L. Arimany de Pablos (IDAE), consultant to
the Commission of the European Communities, for editorial assistance. COMBINED PRODUCTION
OF HEAT AND POWER
(COGENERATION)
Edited by
J. SIRCHIS
Directorate-General for Energy, Commission of the European Communities
Brussels, Belgium
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Combined production of heat and power (cogeneration).
1. Combined heat and power-schemes
I. Sirchis, J.
333.793
ISBN 1-85166--524-2
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The existence of significant uncertainty as to the long term prospects for
energy supply and demand, following the rapid fall in oil prices, has
stimulated both the international energy situation as well as that of the
Community and made it essential that the substantial progress already made
in restructuring the Community's energy economy be maintained and, if
necessary, reinforced.
The European Energy Policy objectives for the year 1995 call for
adequate energy supply, controlled energy prices and increased environmental
concern. All these constraints necessitate the rational exploitation of the
primary energy forms by the EEC member states.
The above objectives can be attained either by energy saving or
increased energy efficiency, or finally through the development of new
technologies to augment both saving and efficiency. Better insulation heat
and material recycling, or application of improved processes, are typical
examples.
Cogeneration is the process of generating electricity with synchronous
utilisation of the useful heat wastes produced. Thus the overall efficiency
is increased, the consumption of primary energy is lowered and the
sequential pollutant emissions are eliminated.
Much progress has been made up to now in the field of cogeneration in
the EEC countries in industry, power plants, district heating and building
air-conditioning, but the necessary expansion of applications requires
further technological progress, new methods of financing and an appropriate
legislative basis of reference.