Cogeneration. Training at Institut Francais de l'Energie

Considering the set up of a cogeneration installation raises many questions. The decision to go forward or not depends not only on technical factors but also on economical and financial factors, awareness of the risks involved, which often means appealing to specialized consultants for advice. Everyone knows that the cost of these studies is high ; they should therefore be conducted only for feasible projects. It seems useful that these studies be preceded by a pre-feasibility study whose main object would be to detect the major reasons which will make a cogeneration project realizable or not and, when it is realizable, to bring forward the weak points of the project. Thus, from this study, one will expect the right answers but to have the right answers necessitates to ask the right questions and to ask the right questions supposes to know exactly what you are talking about. The Institut Francais de l'Energie proposes to help deciders in trying to make a judicious choice: to invest or not invest in a cogeneration installation. (author).