A COGENERATION-DISTRICT-HEATING SCHEME FOR LEICESTER-CITY, UK

The use of cogeneration with district heating is not a common practice in the UK. It has attracted neither significant support from the Gove rnment or the private sector. In this paper, we describe an energy, en vironment and economics assessment for a proposed cogeneration with di strict-heating scheme for the city of Leicester. Several investment op tions, which differ with respect to plant numbers and generating capac ities, are considered. A robustness assessment was performed to compar e the financial returns for various economic scenarios and demand cond itions. The use of a centralised cogeneration plant is found to be the financially most-attractive option if environmental costs are taken i nto account.