Management decisions for cogeneration : a survey analysis

This study explores the underlying factors in the decision by private, private non-profit, and public sector facility owners to invest in cogeneration technology. It employs alpha factor analysis techniques to develop factors with maximum generalizability to the universe of variables which potentially explain the decision to invest. Data for this study come from a survey of commercial, industrial, and institutional electric energy consumers who used more than 750 KW demand in any one month of 1981 for a selected electric utility in the Boston area. There were 129 usable responses to the survey(32.2 percent).