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Tou{} ze Ross (:.(fl v. ?~CJECT EE'JENUES . The New Brighton waste-to-energy facility has three sources of revenues: 'I . Tipping fees paid by the haulers for the right to dump their trucks at the facility. . Sales of steam to the district heating customers. . Sales of electricity to Northern States Power (NSP). The analysis assumed that the total annual project revenues used in the financial projections would be the lesser of: . Total revenues resulting from charging the maximum market-constrained price for each of the three revenue producing services; and . Required revenues resulting from charging prices designed to recover all of the facility's annual cash outlays: I Operating expenses Debt service, net of interest income Interest expense net of interest income Distribution to owners (based on a 16% return on owners original capital investment) Working capital needs Renovation and replacement fund Market-constrained tipping fees--The facility is assumed to operate at 90% of rated capacity (150 TPD), 365 days per year. During the start-up year, total MSW throughput is assumed to be one half of an operating year's capacity. At 4,500 BTU/LB of MSW the following consumption per year is assumed: Start-up year Full operations Tons of MSW 24,637 49,275 The tipping fee assumed to be received for each ton of MSW is $10 in 1982 dollars. A 10% per annum rate of inflation is applied. Market-constrained steam prices--The plant is convert MSW into steam with a 65% boiler efficiency. are assumed to be: assumed to Steam sales I M# of Steam Start-up year Full operations 77,819 155,638 - 12 -