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The effect of the large cogeneration plants is identical to that of an electric heat pump in the sense that both use the electricity generated in a power plant to increase the temperature of the reject heat to a temperature at which this heat is useful in district heating networks.
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For the oil barrel, an energy content of 35 MJ/litre, a volume of 159 litres, and the Euro/US dollar equivalence of 1.13 have been assumed.
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In spite of the collapse of the price of oil in February 2016, reaching a minimum of US $25, this has been considered a "typical" price of a barrel of crude oil (note that in June 2008 it reached US $145).
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Colmenar-Santos, A., Borge-Díez, D., Rosales-Asensio, E. (2017). Introduction. In: District Heating and Cooling Networks in the European Union. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57952-8_1
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