Driving forces and obstacles with regard to co-operation between municipal energy companies and process industries in Sweden
✍ Scribed by Stefan Grönkvist; Peter Sandberg
- Book ID
- 104018063
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 226 KB
- Volume
- 34
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0301-4215
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✦ Synopsis
District heating networks can technically enable energy-related co-operations between energy-intensive industries and municipal energy companies. The most common form of co-operation is to utilise industrial waste heat as the primary energy source in district heating networks. However, another type of co-operation is to jointly own a plant that produces both process steam for the industry and hot water for district heating. In this article, eight Swedish energy co-operations are studied and the main focus is on the process leading to co-operations of this kind. Different aspects of factors that facilitate or obstruct the start up and continuous daily operation of a co-operation are discussed. The main conclusion is that while the primary reasons for the foundation of such cooperations are favourable techno-economic factors, this is not enough for a co-operation to emerge. This study highlights the importance of people with a real ambition to co-operate in both parties in the co-operations.