Communities that own waste-to-energy (WTE) facilities rely heavily on the revenues generated by their facility to help pay for the costs to finance, operate and maintain these facilities. The two primary revenue streams are tipping fees and energy sales, generally in the form of electricity. While communities often retain all of the tipping fee revenue, revenue from the sale of energy is nearly always shared with the contract operator. In some cases the shared energy revenues include both capacity and electricity payments. The basis of this strategy is to offer the contract operator an added incentive to maximize this revenue stream through more efficient operation and, in the case of capacity payments, to meet certain capacity commitment criteria required by the energy purchaser. This strategy recognizes that the contract operator has some degree of control over the factors that affect energy production. Under most existing service agreements, which date back to the 1980s, energy revenues are shared on a 90/10 basis, with 90 percent going to the community. Now that many of these service agreements are coming up for renewal or are expiring, communities will need to revisit how best to share energy revenues with the contract operator in order to maximize the total revenues retained by the community. This paper analyzes several different approaches to sharing energy revenues in light of the operational experience gained over the past 20 plus years and concludes that, while energy revenue sharing is still in the best interest of the community, the widely employed strategy of a 90/10 split may not offer the best incentive, and therefore may not lead to the maximization of energy revenues to the community.
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14th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference
May 1–3, 2006
Tampa, Florida, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Solid Waste Processing Division
ISBN:
0-7918-4204-5
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Maximizing Energy Revenues: Providing the Best Incentive to the Contract Operator
Anthony LoRe
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Anthony LoRe
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Paul Stoller
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Paul Stoller
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, MA
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Robert Hauser
Robert Hauser
Pinellas County Utilities Department of Solid Waste Operations, St. Petersburg, FL
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Anthony LoRe
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Paul Stoller
Camp Dresser & McKee, Inc., Cambridge, MA
Robert Hauser
Pinellas County Utilities Department of Solid Waste Operations, St. Petersburg, FL
Paper No:
NAWTEC14-3184, pp. 47-51; 5 pages
Published Online:
October 2, 2008
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LoRe, A, Stoller, P, & Hauser, R. "Maximizing Energy Revenues: Providing the Best Incentive to the Contract Operator." Proceedings of the 14th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. 14th Annual North American Waste-to-Energy Conference. Tampa, Florida, USA. May 1–3, 2006. pp. 47-51. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/NAWTEC14-3184
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