Micro Cogeneration

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XV

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2. Micro Cogeneration Technology

   • Martin Pehnt

   Pages 1-18

3. Dynamics of Socio-Technical Change: Micro Cogeneration in Energy System Transformation Scenarios

   • Jan-Peter Voß, Corinna Fischer

   Pages 19-47

4. The Future Heating Market and the Potential for Micro Cogeneration

   • Martin Pehnt, Lambert Schneider

   Pages 49-65

5. Economics of Micro Cogeneration

   • Lambert Schneider

   Pages 67-86

6. Environmental Impacts of Micro Cogeneration

   • Martin Pehnt, Corinna Fischer

   Pages 87-116

7. From Consumers to Operators: the Role of Micro Cogeneration Users

   • Corinna Fischer

   Pages 117-143

8. Micro Cogeneration — Setting of an Emerging Market

   • Barbara Praetorius

   Pages 145-170

9. Institutional Framework and Innovation Policy for Micro Cogeneration in Germany

   • Martin Cames, Katja Schumacher, Jan-Peter Voß, Katherina Grashof

   Pages 171-196

10. Embedding Micro Cogeneration in the Energy Supply System

    • Lambert Schneider, Martin Pehnt

    Pages 197-218

11. The Micro Cogeneration Operator: A Report from Practical Experience

    • Sylvia Westermann

    Pages 219-230

12. Micro Cogeneration in North America

    • Jon Slowe

    Pages 231-242

13. Micro Cogeneration in Britain

    • Jeremy Harrison

    Pages 243-263

14. Micro Cogeneration in Japan

    • Yasushi Santo

    Pages 265-276

15. Micro Cogeneration in the Netherlands

    • Michael Colijn

    Pages 277-289

16. Summary and Conclusions

    • Martin Cames, Corinna Fischer, Martin Pehnt, Barbara Praetorius, Lambert Schneider, Katja Schumacher et al.

    Pages 291-310

17. References, Links, Authors and Abbreviations

    Pages 311-346

The electricity systems of many countries are currently undergoing a process of transformation. Market liberalization has induced major mergers and acquisitions in the electricity sector, but has also forced companies to seek out new business areas. Environmental regulations, like the Kyoto process and the European Emissions Trading Scheme, are exposing the sector to external pressure. New technologies – such as renewable energy, combined heat and power (CHP), or “clean coal” technologies – are emerging. Recent worldwide experiences with blackouts have once more put security of supply on the agenda. In Germany, the nuclear phase-out and decommissioning of outdated coal plants will lead to a need for replacement of more than one third of the current generation capacity by 2020. The need for replacement is an extremely important driving force for the current transformation, forcing conventional and new technologies to compete for a role in the future energy supply. The overall transformation of electricity systems is neither driven nor shaped by technical or societal modifications alone, but rather by a rich diversity of processes in the realms of technology, politics, society and economy.

• Combined
• Energy Management Systems
• Heat
• Micro CHP
• Potential
• Power
• Software
• Sustainability
• Virtual Power Plant
• electricity
• energy supply
• environment
• plants
• ecotoxicology

• Ifeu Institut für Energie- und Umweltforschung GmbH, Heidelberg

  Martin Pehnt

• Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Berlin

  Barbara Praetorius, Katja Schumacher

• Environmental Policy research Centre (FFU), Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin

  Corinna Fischer

• Öko-Institut e.V., Berlin

  Lambert Schneider, Martin Cames, Jan-Peter Voß

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