By Alexis Saba, Bianca Howard, Michael Gerrard, Vijay Modi
Combined heat and power (CHP or cogeneration) is the simultaneous production of electricity and thermal energy from a single fuel source. In many ways, New York City is a hospitable environment for CHP development. Nonetheless, there are also many characteristics of New York that make it a difficult place to advance CHP. The utility infrastructure is dense and complex—and largely underneath a dense and complex built environment. This paper first seeks to quantify the potential for CHP development in New York City and describe the primary hurdles to optimal deployment in Parts I and II. Part III provides policy solutions for overcoming these hurdles and recommendations for how stakeholders can use information and analysis to maximize the opportunities for CHP.
Read the report Opportunities for and Hurdles to Combined Heat and Power in New York City in Columbia Law School's Scholarship Archive.