Combined Heat and Power: Connecting the Gap Between Markets and Utility Interconnection and Tariff Practices (Part 1)

The increased adoption of CHP nationwide still faces major hurdles, the most significant of which includes individual utility policies and practices. ACEEE embarked on a review of the major utility companies nationwide in order to expose still existent barriers to entry for proposed CHP facilities and to show the hierarchy that currently exists in regard to the progressivism of CHP policies on a state-by-state and regional basis. That is to say, some regions of the United States have developed policies promoting the adoption of the technology, while other areas have yet to focus on it as a potential market interest. We have placed the utilities reviewed into a four-tier stratum with regard to utility operations and friendliness toward the adoption of CHP. BACKGROUND