[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 18, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 18CFR292.205]

[Page 768]
 
           TITLE 18--CONSERVATION OF POWER AND WATER RESOURCES
 
  CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
PART 292_REGULATIONS UNDER SECTIONS 201 AND 210 OF THE PUBLIC UTILITY 
 
 Subpart B_Qualifying Cogeneration and Small Power Production Facilities
 
Sec. 292.205  Criteria for qualifying cogeneration facilities.

    (a) Operating and efficiency standards for topping-cycle 
facilities--(1) Operating standard. For any topping-cycle cogeneration 
facility, the useful thermal energy output of the facility must be no 
less than 5 percent of the total energy output during the 12-month 
period beginning with the date the facility first produces electric 
energy, and any calendar year subsequent to the year in which the 
facility first produces electric energy.
    (2) Efficiency standard. (i) For any topping-cycle cogeneration 
facility for which any of the energy input is natural gas or oil, and 
the installation of which began on or after March 13, 1980, the useful 
power output of the facility plus one-half the useful thermal energy 
output, during the 12-month period beginning with the date the facility 
first produces electric energy, and any calendar year subsequent to the 
year in which the facility first produces electric energy, must:
    (A) Subject to paragraph (a)(2)(i)(B) of this section be no less 
than 42.5 percent of the total energy input of natural gas and oil to 
the facility; or
    (B) If the useful thermal energy output is less than 15 percent of 
the total energy output of the facility, be no less than 45 percent of 
the total energy input of natural gas and oil to the facility.
    (ii) For any topping-cycle cogeneration facility not subject to 
paragraph (a)(2)(i) of this section there is no efficiency standard.
    (b) Efficiency standards for bottoming-cycle facilities. (1) For any 
bottoming-cycle cogeneration facility for which any of the energy input 
as supplementary firing is natural gas or oil, and the installation of 
which began on or after March 13, 1980, the useful power output of the 
facility during the 12-month period beginning with the date the facility 
first produces electric energy, and any calendar year subsequent to the 
year in which the facility first produces electric energy must be no 
less than 45 percent of the energy input of natural gas and oil for 
supplementary firing.
    (2) For any bottoming-cycle cogeneration facility not covered by 
paragraph (b)(1) of this section, there is no efficiency standard.
    (c) Waiver. The Commission may waive any of the requirements of 
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this section upon a showing that the facility 
will produce significant energy savings.

[45 FR 17972, Mar. 20, 1980, as amended by Order 478, 52 FR 28467, July 
30, 1987; Order 575, 60 FR 4857, Jan. 25, 1995]