| Country | Standard | Description |
|---|---|---|
| US/International | ASHRAE District cooling guide | “Complete Design Guide for District Cooling Systems - The District Cooling Guide provides design guidance for all major aspects of district cooling systems, including central chiller plants, chilled-water distribution systems, and consumer interconnection.” |
| USA/International | ASHRAE District heat-ing guide | “District Heating Guide provides design guidance for all major aspects of district heating systems, including cen-tral heating plants, distribution systems, and consumer interconnections, for both steam and hot-water systems.” |
| USA/International | ASHRAE TC 6.2 - Dis-trict Energy | “This technical committee is concerned with district en-ergy technology and integrated systems that provide one or more forms of thermal energy or a combination of thermal energy and electric power from a central plant(s) to meet the heating, cooling, or combined thermal ener-gy and power needs of end-users in two or more struc-tures.” For more refer http://tc62.ashraetcs.org/ |
| USA | USEPA CHP Project Development Hand-book |
Provides information, tools, and hints on project feasi-bly and development, CHP technologies, Procure-ment, O&M, finances and the resources of the CHP Partnership. |
| USA (Commonwealth of Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy & Environmen-tal Affairs DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RE-SOURCES) |
APS guideline on the eligibility and metering of combined heat & power projects | “This Guideline covers methods, criteria, and specifica-tions that must be satisfied in order for a CHP project to qualify as an APS Alternative Generation Unit under the APS Regulation and in order for the output of such a Unit to qualify for APS Alternative Generation Attributes – as embodied in Alternative Energy Certificates (“AECs”) issued by the NEPOOL GIS.” |
| USA | California Energy Commission - guide-lines for certification of combined heat and power systems pursu-ant to the waste heat and carbon emissions reduction act, public utiliites code, section 2840 et seq. | “These Guidelines set forth the technical and legal re-quirements that combined heat and power (CHP) sys-tems must meet to be certified as an “eligible customer‐generator” of an electric corporation or as a “retail end‐use customer” of a publicly owned electric utility pursuant to the Waste Heat and Carbon Emissions Re-duction Act, California Public Utilities Code Sections 2840 through 2845.” |
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