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Flexibility: the path to low-carbon, low-cost electricity grids | |
Brendan Pierpont; David Nelson; David Posner and Andrew Goggins | |
2017-05 | |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | 美国 |
领域 | 气候变化 |
英文摘要 | Wind and solar have become established resources for low-carbon electricity around the world. Cost declines for those technologies now allow us a tantalizing vision of the not-too-distant future where our electricity is supplied almost exclusively by renewables. However, to make this vision a reality, our grids need to add resources that can compensate for the intermittency of these technologies.
Electricity systems have always been managed ‘flexibly’. Weather, work patterns, industry, or even sports schedules create predictable or unexpected drops or spikes in demand. Sudden system failures, such as power station or transmission outages, mean that backup generation has always been required to keep the lights on. Generally, suppliers have controlled generation from coal, gas or hydro plants to respond to whatever consumers demanded of the system. Now that technology costs are competitive with fossil fuels, today’s challenge in the energy systems transition has shifted towards integration of dispatchable low-carbon electricity sources into the system – at the lowest possible cost. With this challenge at the heart of its roadmap to accelerate a shift towards an affordable, reliable, sustainable and modern energy system, in 2016 the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) commissioned Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) to examine four areas for its report:
CPI Energy Finance’s report, Flexibility: the path to low-carbon, low-cost electricity grids was commissioned by the ETC to support its report, Better Energy, Greater Prosperity, launched on 25 April 2017. |
英文关键词 | electricity emissions energy finance energy transition flexibility utilities |
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来源平台 | Climate Policy Initiative |
文献类型 | 科技报告 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/242489 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Brendan Pierpont,David Nelson,David Posner and Andrew Goggins. Flexibility: the path to low-carbon, low-cost electricity grids,2017. |
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