Renewable Electricity and the Grid

The Challenge of Variability
Herausgeber: Boyle, Godfrey

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781844077892
• ISBN-10: 1844077896
• Artikelnr.: 25731069

Autorenporträt

Godfrey Boyle is Director of the Energy and Environment Research Unit at the UK Open University, where has chaired several renewable and sustainable energy course teams. He has published widely on these subjects, including the textbooks Energy Systems and Sustainability (2003) and Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future (2004). He is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (formerly the Institution of Electrical Engineers) and a Trustee of the National Energy Foundation.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Variable Renewables and the Grid: An Overview
Wind Power on the Grid
Renewable Resource Characteristics and Network Integration
The UK Energy Research Centre Review of the Costs and Impacts of Intermittency
Wind Power Forecasting
Flexibility of Fossil Fuel Plant in a Renewable Energy Scenario: Possible Implications for the UK
The Potential Contribution of Emergency Diesel Standby Generators in Dealing with the Variability of Renewable Energy Sources
Demand Flexibility, Micro-Combined Heat and Power and the 'Informated' Grid
A Renewable Electricity System for the UK
Reliable Power, Wind Variability and Offshore Grids in Europe
Planning for Variability in the Longer Term: The Challenge of a Truly Sustainable Energy System
Index