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Base load power plant
About: Base load power plant is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 6121 publications have been published within this topic receiving 96788 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the projected costs in 2030 of one medium-carbon and two low-carbon fossil fuel scenarios for the Australian National Electricity Market (NEM) against the costs of a previously published scenario for 100% renewable electricity in 2030.
134 citations
09 Jun 2014
TL;DR: In this article, the main factors and modeling methods of EV charging load are analyzed; the literature reviews are carried out on EV integration and impacts on power grids, including grid access capability, power quality, power economy and environment.
Abstract: Electric vehicle (EV) industry gets into fast growth period in China, so that charging of large scale of EV will pose inevitable impacts on power grid in the future. In this article, the main factors and modeling methods of EV charging load are analyzed; The literature reviews are carried out on EV integration and impacts on power grids, including grid access capability, power quality, power economy and environment; Additionally, the benefits and realization methods of smart charging strategy are discussed. The current research on V2G (vehicle to grid) operation are summarized as well. Finally, the unresolved problems and possible future research areas are presented.
134 citations
TL;DR: In this article, a load frequency control (LFC) mechanism was proposed for multi-generating two areas interconnected power systems with energy storage system in a deregulated power environment. And the proposed control mechanism has been analyzed in different simulation case studies to find out improved dynamic performance over integral control strategies.
133 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated solution that takes care of both microgrid load dispatch and network reconfiguration is proposed, where the stochastic nature of wind, PV and load is taken into consideration.
Abstract: Previous studies of distributed power and network focused only on the optimization of either the microgrid load dispatch or reconfiguration power loss. Micorgrid economic load dispatch approach normally does not support distribution network. Network reconfiguration usually does not take distributed generators into consideration. Thus, it is necessary to integrate these two sub-problems together in order to benefit the whole network. In this paper, an integrated solution that takes care of both microgrid load dispatch and network reconfiguration is proposed. The stochastic nature of wind, PV and load is taken into consideration. The forecasting of the wind, PV and load data are considered. The four bio-inspired optimization schemes are adopted to solve the problem. The results obtained have shown that the four optimization techniques are all capable of solving this problem. By using the integrated approach, microgrid can be incorporated into the network more effectively. The network can adjust itself more efficiently to allow utilization of the renewable energy resources.
132 citations
TL;DR: The electric spring is an emerging technology proven to be effective in stabilizing smart grid with substantial penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and enabling load demand to follow power generation, and the energy buffer and therefore energy storage requirements can be reduced.
Abstract: The electric spring is an emerging technology proven to be effective in i) stabilizing smart grid with substantial penetration of intermittent renewable energy sources and ii) enabling load demand to follow power generation. The subtle change from output voltage control to input voltage control of a reactive power controller offers the electric spring new features suitable for future smart grid applications. In this project, the effects of such subtle control change are highlighted, and the use of the electric springs in reducing energy storage requirements in power grid is theoretically proven and practically demonstrated in an experimental setup of a 90 kVA power grid. Unlike traditional Statcom and Static Var Compensation technologies, the electric spring offers not only reactive power compensation but also automatic power variation in non-critical loads. Such an advantageous feature enables non-critical loads with embedded electric springs to be adaptive to future power grid. Consequently, the load demand can follow power generation, and the energy buffer and therefore energy storage requirements can be reduced.
131 citations