Article ID: | iaor201111333 |
Volume: | 39 |
Issue: | 12 |
Start Page Number: | 7950 |
End Page Number: | 7962 |
Publication Date: | Dec 2011 |
Journal: | Energy Policy |
Authors: | Lahdelma Risto, Wang Hai-Chao, Jiao Wen-Ling, Zou Ping-Hua |
Keywords: | economics |
Combined heat and power (CHP) plants dominate the heating market in China. With the ongoing energy structure reformation and increasing environmental concerns, we propose gas‐fired boilers to be deployed in underperforming heating substations of heating networks for peak load compensation, in order to improve both energy efficiency and environmental sustainability. However, due to the relatively high price of gas, techno‐economic analysis is required for evaluating different combined heating scenarios, characterized by basic heat load ratio (