Sentences with phrase «baseload generation plants»

As JQ has pointed out more times than you have apparently read qualified sources, 24/7 baseload generation plants are a bug not not a feature, as their inflexibility is a costly constraint on the supply system.

A big open question in the quest for a reliable grid under the Clean Power Plan remains if and how utilities will adapt to cope with increased renewable and distributed energy on their grids, especially as large baseload generation plants that usually provide backup for variable generation retire.

Not exact matches

Those unique characteristics include the fact that Mississippi Power needed new generation anyway — Kemper will be the first Mississippi Power baseload plant built in more than 30 years.

Brazil also needs power plants to meet its baseload generation needs, said Tolmasquim.

I think there will always be a place for some large, baseload [power] plants, et cetera, even as we have, I think, an increased emphasis on distributed generation [from technologies such as solar or fuel cells].

But the competitive landscape is formidable, not just due to coal but also to renewables, which in some countries become a cheaper form of new power generation than gas by the mid-2020s, pushing gas - fired plants towards a balancing rather than a baseload role.

The Department of Energy's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ways to compensate baseload generation, now under consideration at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, may provide some relief to existing coal plants, but the report notes that the PJM Interconnection compensates plants for reliability through its capacity market and that «has not yet translated into significant revenues for coal - fired generation.»

But as even more solar generation is built, sunny daytimes will become off - peak, and it will be the baseload plants that are no longer economical to run, while some dispatchable capacity is still required to handle nighttimes and February.

These wholesale markets are rigged in favor of wind and solar and they are forcing baseload power generation, specifically, nuclear and coal - fired plants, to close.

4th generation nuclear power (4th GNP) and coal - fired power plants with carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) at present are the best candidates to provide large baseload nearly carbon - free power (in case renewable energies can not do the entire job).

In 1969, New England Electric converted the baseload plant to oil, which had become the dominant fossil fuel for electric generation in the region.

Not it is your argument that PV will make electricity generation less secure because a purported low LCOE will make it uneconomic to run reliable baseload plant of which the only realistic options are coal and nuclear.

They added that subsidy - free renewables will have a negative impact on baseload power generation, such as natural gas and nuclear, but boost the business case for flexible assets, such as peaking plants, battery storage and demand response.

One design, by MIT professor Charles Forsberg, called the AHTR, combines a flouride - salt - cooled reactor with a gas turbine; one variation on it incorporates injecting gas to the turbine for high temperature turbine generation, so that the power plant can operate for both baseload and peak power.