The scarcity of energy and resulting increases in price during the 1970s led to the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1979. Certain provisions of PURPA were designed to encourage industrial cogeneration. This dissertation uses a simulation of profit maximizing behavior by firms with industrial boilers in Florida to examine the effectiveness of PURPA and of various state policy alternatives consistent with PURPA. / The results of the simulations indicate that PURPA should be highly effective in stimulating the adoption of cogeneration technologies under all circumstances examined. Alternative scenarios examined analyzed the effect of varying the length of firms' planning horizons, the effect of capacity payments under different circumstances, and the effects of cost-saving technological change. / Both the amount of cogeneration and the technology used to cogenerate vary with different assumptions. Longer planning horizons encourage higher capital cost technologies such as coal fired steam turbines, whereas capacity payments encourage technologies with relatively high electricity output such as gas turbines or diesel generators. The effect of cost-saving technological change varies depending on whether the savings are for all types of cogeneration or whether the cost of a particular technology is reduced. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 46-09, Section: A, page: 2758. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1985.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_75650 |
| Contributors | NALL, DARYL WEATHERLY., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 172 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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