Title :
Profitable use of standby generators in a competitive electricity market
Author :
Dixon, Malcolm G.
Author_Institution :
Network Power & Cooling Unit, BT plc, London, UK
Abstract :
The paper looks at opportunities, within the competitive electricity market place in England and Wales, for running standby generators deliberately in order to save or make money. The opportunities examined in some detail are triad avoidance, load shedding and export, and the benefits and drawbacks of each are discussed. The paper concludes that triad avoidance is always advantageous, that load shedding is desirable and profitable at certain times of day, and that export is unlikely to be viable for the majority of existing telecommunications standby generating installations
Keywords :
electricity supply industry; load shedding; power system economics; standby generators; telecommunication power supplies; UK; competitive electricity market; cost savings; load export; load shedding; standby generators; telecommunications standby generating installations; triad avoidance; Electricity supply industry; Fuels; Government; Intelligent networks; Mesh generation; Monopoly; Nuclear power generation; Power generation; Privatization; Standby generators;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunication Energy Conference, 1999. INTELEC '99. The 21st International
Conference_Location :
Copenhagen
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-5624-1
DOI :
10.1109/INTLEC.1999.794081
