A Means to Enhance Grid Reliability and Promote Energy Sustainability?

摘要

CHP plants, through load following, load shedding, and islanding, are readily able to enhance a grid's reliability by playing a role in, exclusive of a catastrophic or non-contingent event, failure avoidance. Their intrinsic ability to 'island' themselves into a micro-grid also enables them to have a role in recovery in the event of a BPS system failure. Also, with grid access equality, CHP, unlike many other renewable energy forms, can be propagated without government subsidies, while bringing more efficient, sustainable power and ancillary services to the grid. The only government intervention needed is for the removal of the self-inflicted restrictions and the leveling of the renewable playing field.