Distributed Power Generation is a New Report That Examines Key Environmental and Legislative Issues and Analyses the Technologies Efficiency and Economics of Conventional Fossil Fuel
Posted on: Monday, 26 November 2007, 09:00 CST
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c75442) has announced the addition of "The Future of Distributed Power Generation: New Technologies, Changing Economics and the Impact of Fuel Cells" to their offering.
Distributed power generation undergoing significant change as disparate pools of capacity give way to the establishment of integrated local generation. While distributed generation can reduce network losses and improve network stability, there are still a number of barriers including network connection costs, the operation of net metering and in some cases the application of market liberalisation. Resolution of these issues and efficiency gains in conventional, advanced fuel cell and renewable technologies will eventually lead to easier and faster integration of distributed generation and significant growth in distributed generating capacity. 'The Future of
Distributed Power Generation' is a new report published by Business Insights that examines key environmental and legislative issues and analyses the technologies, efficiency and economics of conventional fossil fuel and advanced distributed generation. This new report analyses how demand for distributed generation capacity is likely to change as concern over energy security and network stability grows.
This new report will enable you to...
Identify the country level initiatives that are driving forward distributed capacity growth and forecast the role of distributed power generation in the energy mix.
Assess the role of renewable power generation technologies, their suitability to distributed power applications and their capacity growth.
Understand key network issues, including the effects of market liberalization, net metering, active distribution systems, the role of virtual power plants and system efficiency and stability.
Anticipate the impact of key environmental, legislative and policy issues and concerns over energy security on the future of distributed power generation in developing and mature economies.
Benchmark leading power generation technologies in terms of costs and emissions for distributed power generation.
Key findings from this report...
Additional wind power capacity of 66,200MW was added between 1997 and 2006, an increase of 451%. However, the economics of distributed generation are prohibitive to small installations.
Almost all distributed power generation technologies can provide better performance than US fossil fuels. Distributed generation technologies (apart from diesel engines) also outperform the average emissions from US power generation.
Fuel cells are approaching competitiveness. A 200kW PAFC with CHP produces electricity for $0.14-$0.24/kWh. However, fuel cells without CHP are uncompetitive with generating costs around $0.6/kWh or more.
The total distributed generation market in the US between 2010 and 2020 is likely to be 35,000MW. While much of this capacity will be based on gas turbines fuel cells could capture almost 20% of capacity.
Your questions answered...
How do the key network issues around distributed power generation act as barriers to capacity growth?
Which conventional power generation technologies have the best application in terms of costs and emissions for distributed power generation?
How do renewable energy technologies compare to conventional distributed power generation?
Which of the emerging fuel cells technologies will be most suitable for use in distributed power generation?
How do key environmental, legislative, policy and energy security issues impact on the future of distributed power generation?
In which countries are local initiatives driving forward distributed capacity growth?
Contents:
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Network issues
Chapter 3 Conventional fossil-fuel based technologies for distributed generation
Chapter 4 Advanced fossil fuel-based technologies for distributed generation: Fuel cells
Chapter 5 Renewable technologies for distributed generation
Chapter 6 Environmental and legislative issues
Chapter 7 The economics of distributed power generation
Chapter 8 The outlook for distributed power generation
List of Figures
List of Tables
For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c75442
Source: Business Insights
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