CHP Plant Revamping Project. A Promising Energy Efficiency Story in the Industry Sector.

The present paper describes an energy efficiency project (and relevant authorities proceedings) related to a 100 MWe CHP located within an industrial facility in Italy (COD 1996). The CHP plant supplies steam and electricity to the industrial process, whilst the extra electric-energy generation is sold to the grid. Main project target was to increase the global operating and economic indicators by: • Modifying the plant in order to cope with different thermal needs from the industrial process; Obtaining the incentives named TEE – Titoli di Efficienza Energetica , related to the CAR scheme; • Reducing CO 2 emissions (“Quote CO 2” ). • Increasing the CHP global efficiency; As several European CHP plants are nowadays facing operation/performance limitations due to different actual thermal loads (typically lower) compared to the design ones; the project has hence the aim to combine the need of a plant retrofit and the eligibility for the CAR incentives, providing a financial support to the retrofit, which corresponds, in project case, to a PBT of less than 2 years. The project and iterations with GSE are still ongoing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]