Electric Utility Resource Planning: Economics, Reliability, and Decision-Making

by Sim; Steven

• ISBN13: 9781439884072
• ISBN10: 1439884072
• Additional ISBN(s): 9781351832632
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-12-15
• Publisher: CRC Press
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Summary

The people involved in decisions about electric power often have misconceptions regarding a number of factors, including how electric utilities operate their systems of power plants. This book provides understanding, explaining how analyses leading to the selection of new resource options should be conducted. It leads readers through an exercise of creating a hypothetical electric utility system of various types of power plants and determining how those power plants would be operated to meet the electrical demands of its customers.