The
HUD CHP Screening Tool was developed under a collaborative effort
between the U.S. Departments of Housing and Urban Development and
Energy as a tool to evaluate combined cooling, heating, and power
in multi-family housing. A new Version 2.1 has been posted to expand the scope of the evaluation.
Users
of the HUD CHP Screening Tool need to type in data from their monthly
power and fuel bills for one consecutive 12 month period as well
as some utility rate information. The program uses these data to
estimate fuel use for space and water heating and power consumption
for air conditioning. The utility costs and rate information are
combined with correlations for costs of generator equipment, installation,
and maintenance to estimate simple payback periods for a hypothetical
CHP system relative to the non-CHP system reflected in the utility
data. Sites with low estimated simple payback periods are encouraged
to look more seriously into CHP for both its energy savings and
cost savings opportunities. Sites with high simple payback periods
can save the time and effort of examining CHP in detail with assurances
that they are not missing a great opportunity.
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