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Power Supply Chalenges: Solutions for integrating Renewables

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Many readers of this book have to make important decisions about electrical energy supply in different regions. Electricity is crucial for creating wealth and comfort in a modern society. With ever growing demand for electrical energy, its generation has a huge impact on global fuel consumption and the related emissions. This demand is expected to double over the next twenty years or so.rnDuring the past hundred years, scientists and engineers have acquired a thorough knowledge of the power supply system. Modern power plants achieve high fuel efficiencies, and their emissions have been drastically reduced. Excellent transmission and distribution systems ensure a high degree of reliability in the power supply to consumers. However, measures need to be taken to make the electricity supply more sustainable. Ultimately, the depletion of fossil fuels will occur and the issue of global warming from greenhouse gases cannot be neglected. Therefore, the power sector has to adjust accordingly and find a new path. Decision made now will have a long term impact and optimum solutions have to be chosen. rnThe purpose of this book is to explain the challenges arising from the advent of a large volume of intermittent renewable energy sources. In addition, innovative solutions are offeredfor keeping the power supply system reliable and affordable. The book also discusses the effects of renewable energy on the cost of electricity per kilowatt hour. Low costs are very important since energy is so intertwined with the economy, any increase in the price of electricity has a significant impact on the cost of products and services.rnPower systems are not based on feelings and opinions, but on scientific and technical facts. Therefore, some mathematics and physics are presented in this book. Nevertheless, readers without a technical background should also be able to understand the issues displayed.rnWriting this book took much more effort than initially expected. Large levels of intermittent power sources in system have an impact on the requirements for contigency reserves, on balancing electricity production and demand, on supplying reactive power and on costs.This required searching for actual data on the output of solar panels and wind turbines, in combination with actual power demand patterns. Fortunately, most European and USA based transmission system operators make the necessary information available on the internet, although often heavy number crunching was required to transform this data into a workable format. Also, the International Energy Agency always provides useful information. Yet, this book does not pretend to cover envery aspect of the issues at stake. Hopefully it helps the reader to gain more insight into the matter and serve towards achieving the best solutions.rnWind and solar energy are essential to meet energy demand and to cut carbon emissions. But how to merge their variability into decades old power systems? Searching for answers, this landmark work combines empiric data with theory of power engineering. In a truly cross disciplinary manner, it reaches from detailed electronichal analysis to system level political and economical issues. rn• The impact of intermittent generation to grid reliabilityrn• The potential of energy storage technologiesrn• Energy costs and competitiveness of different generating techniquesrn• How to build the perfect capacity mixrnIt is becoming widely understood that future power system must be extremely flexible. What remains under debate is what are the best means for flexibility. With compelling scientific evidence, this book proposes that fast reacting, modular gas fired power plants are often the most credible answer.

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090101845

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621.3:620.9 KLI p

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Wartsila Finland : Finlan., 2014

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181 p.

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English

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NONE

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