With expanding environmental and climate change regulatory frameworks, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the fossil</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"...With expanding environmental and climate change regulatory frameworks, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the fossil</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">based baseload</span><span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">generation is forced to decline</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, thus making room for more and more generation based on renewable and other carbon-free energy sources. This paper deals with a number of controversial issues and open questions concerning </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">growing penetration of renewable energy sources into power generation systems, often without due care of the impacts of variable as compared to conventional generation on </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">reliability of electricity supply. Particular attention is paid to baseload generation, power market design, system operation under extreme weather conditions, energy storage, back-up</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and reserve power, as well as to the role of mechanical inertia an</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">d reliability of on-site fuel supply, demonstrated on an example of coal </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">excavation and delivery to a power plant.展开更多
文摘With expanding environmental and climate change regulatory frameworks, </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the fossil</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">-</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">based baseload</span><span style="font-family:""> <span style="font-family:Verdana;">generation is forced to decline</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">, thus making room for more and more generation based on renewable and other carbon-free energy sources. This paper deals with a number of controversial issues and open questions concerning </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">growing penetration of renewable energy sources into power generation systems, often without due care of the impacts of variable as compared to conventional generation on </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">the </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">reliability of electricity supply. Particular attention is paid to baseload generation, power market design, system operation under extreme weather conditions, energy storage, back-up</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">,</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> and reserve power, as well as to the role of mechanical inertia an</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">d reliability of on-site fuel supply, demonstrated on an example of coal </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">excavation and delivery to a power plant.