Potential Barriers to Implementing Efficiency
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Government regulations, regulatory regimes (i.e., competitive markets or traditional cost of
service regulation), and industry factors (such as growth or a lack of growth in demand) all affect
the motivation for implementing improvement projects at coal-fired power plants. These external
forces add to the internal evaluation of the costs vs. benefits of improvements for a particular unit.
This section will look at a few of these external forces which may hamper the implementation
efficiency projects.