Steven Sim

Electric Utility Resource Planning

Economics, Reliability, and Decision-Making

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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People involved in decisions about electric power often have misconceptions regarding how electric utilities operate their systems of power plants and how they plan for the future. This book explains how utilities "work" and how utility planning is (or should be) conducted. It leads readers through an exercise of creating a hypothetical electric utility system of various types of power plants. It shows how those power plants would be operated, then walks the reader through the steps of analyzing new power plants and energy conservation options to determine how the utility's customers would best be served.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9781439884072
• ISBN-10: 1439884072
• Artikelnr.: 33653751

Autorenporträt

Dr. Steven Sim has worked in the field of energy analysis since the mid-1970s. After graduating from the University of Miami, Florida, with bachelor's and master's degrees in mathematics in 1973 and 1975, respectively, he earned a doctorate in environmental science and engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1979, with an emphasis on energy. That year, Dr. Sim joined Florida Power & Light Company (FPL), a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. and one of the largest electric utilities in the United States. Since then, he has conducted, supervised, and/or collaborated on thousands of analyses designed to examine how FPL can best serve its customers given changing circumstances, laws, and regulations.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. How Does an Electric Utility Actually "Work"? Overview of
Utility Resource Planning. Reliability Analyses for Our Utility System.
Resource Option Analyses for Our Utility System: Supply Options. Resource
Option Analyses for Our Utility System: DSM Options. Final Resource Option
Analyses for Our Utility System. Are We Done Yet? Other Factors That Can
(and Will) Complicate Resource Planning Analyses. Final Thoughts (Including
Some Opinions). Appendices.