District Heating and Cooling in the United States: Prospects and Issues By Committee on District Heating and Cooling, National Research Council
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Executive Summary 1 1. Introduction 7 How District Heating and Cooling Systems Work 10 Attributes of District Heating and Cooling Systems 22 2. History and Background 25 History of District Heating 25 The Recent Revival 28 The Current Extent of District Heating and Cooling in the United States 31 The European Experience 31 3. The Market for District Heating and Cooling 39 The Argonne Model 39 Prospects and Uses 41 District Heating and Cooling Markets 51 4. Impediments 57 Data and Information 58 Taxes and Fees 59 Regulation 61 Costs 67 Financing 69 5. Leadership, Strategy, and Institutional Arrangements 76 Leadership and Strategy 76 Coordinated Policy Action 78 6. Technology and Product Development 81 Research Directions 81 Research Dissemination 83 CONTENTS ix About this PDF file: This new digital representation of the original work has been recomposed from XML files created from the original paper book, not from the original typesetting files. Page breaks are true to the original; line lengths, word breaks, heading styles, and other typesetting-specific formatting, however, cannot be retained, and some typographic errors may have been accidentally inserted. Please use the print version of this publication as the authoritative version for attribution. Copyright %26copy; National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved. District Heating and Cooling in the United States: Prospects and Issues http://www.nap.edu/catalog/263.html 7. Conclusions and Recommendations 85 District Heating and Cooling Systems 85 Regulation 86 Taxes 87 Data and Information 89 The Federal Role 90 Financing 91 Technology and Product Development 92 Appendix A: Case Studies 95 St. Paul, Minnesota 96 Willmar, Minnesota 106 Piqua, Ohio 107 Trenton, New Jersey 108 Jamestown, New York 110 Baltimore, Maryland 115 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 120 Fairbanks, Alaska 121 Los Angeles, California 122 Appendix B: Systems in the Washington, D. C., and Baltimore Metropolitan Areas 125 Military 125 Colleges and Universities 126 Residential 126 Governmental 128 Medical 129 Institutional 129 Appendix C: District Heating in Europe 130 Factors Influencing District Heating in Europe 130 Government Planning 134 Appendix D: Technical Assessment, City of Baltimore District Heating Project 141 Methodology 141 Thermal Demand Assessment 142 Thermal Supply 144 Thermal Transmission and Distribution System 144 Economic Analysis 145 Summary 146 References 151 Glossary of Acronyms 155 CONTENTS x About
Publisher: National Academies Press Number Of Pages: 168 Publication Date: 1985-01-01 ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0309035376 ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780309035378 Binding: Paperback