Two programs being considered to encourage energy efficiency in industry, as possible ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, are 1) "Steam Challenge," designed to improve steam use in industrial plants, and 2) incentives to encourage greater cogeneration of electricity (the structure of this program is yet to be determined). This paper looks at the potential for these two programs to reduce steam use and increase electricity production in the U.S. pulp and paper industry, using an industrial economic engineering model called the Industrial Technology and Energy Modeling System (ITEMS).
Roop, J. M. (1998). Energy Efficiency in the Pulp and Paper Industry: Simulation of Steam Challenge and CHP Incentives with ITEMS. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.tamu.edu). Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /91149.