U.S. Department of Energy - Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Advanced Manufacturing Office – Industrial Distributed Energy

Technical White Papers

The following technical white papers explore potential options to increase widespread deployment of distributed generation (DG) and combined heat and power (CHP). Issues such as the treatment of CHP in renewable portfolio standards and CHP commissioning are discussed.

• Avoiding a Train Wreck: Replacing Old Coal Plants with Energy Efficiency, 15 pp, Aug. 2011
• Barriers to CHP with Renewable Portfolio Standards, 13 pp, Sept. 2007 
• A Case for CHP Commissioning, 57 pp, Apr. 2008 
• Characterization of the Installed Costs of Prime Movers using Gaseous Opportunity Fuels – Report Addendum, 7 pp, Sept. 2007 
• Combined Heat and Power (CHP): Essential for a Cost Effective Clean Energy Standard, 11 pp, Apr. 2011
• Commissioning of CHP Systems, 27 pp, Apr. 2008 
• Energy Portfolio Standards and the Promotion of Combined Heat and Power, 12 pp, Apr. 2009
• Federal Strategies to Increase the Implementation of CHP in the United States, 12 pp, June 1999 
• Impacts of Increasing Natural Gas Fueled Combined Heat and Power from 20 to 35 Percent of Total Electricity Production in Texas, 21 pp, Apr. 2011
• Integrated Assessment of the Energy Savings and Emissions-Reduction Potential of CHP, 12 pp, June 1999