Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070605
M. Venables
{"title":"Making the connection [Power system interconnection]","authors":"M. Venables","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070605","url":null,"abstract":"Faced with building new power stations on an already congested strip of land, Long Island Power Authority opted to add another connection to the mainland. This article presents an overview of this historic power project that has given Long Island direct access to a lower cost more diversified power supply in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland (PJM) power markets.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126123972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070614
H. D. Lightfoot
{"title":"Final word: Nobody's fuel","authors":"H. D. Lightfoot","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070614","url":null,"abstract":"Wind and solar electricity cannot supply more than 10 per cent of electricity on the world's electricity grids.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130586854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070613
S. Davies
{"title":"Azerbaijan re-energised","authors":"S. Davies","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070613","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070613","url":null,"abstract":"Despite its enourmous oil and gas wealth, the former Soviet state of Azerbaijan has struggled with the growing demand for electrical power. The author writes about the independent republic's route back to energy self-sufficency.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"261 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115391555","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070609
J. Klimstra
{"title":"When less is more","authors":"J. Klimstra","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070609","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070609","url":null,"abstract":"This article highlights a better solution to solve the problem of insufficient electricity generating capacity, with an example from rapidly developing Azerbaijan. Azerenerji, the national electricity company of Azerbaijan, has applied the correct methodology for expanding generating capacity and have decided to install a new large single power plant of, say, 750 MW, that would add 15 per cent to the existing capacity. It has decided to install five power plants with each about 90 MW capacity right at locations where the electricity is needed that avoids excessive transmission and distribution losses. Azerbaijan has the power capacity matching its economic growth. Consequently, sufficient generating capacity has to be running all the time to compensate for instantaneous failure of at least the largest generator. Each new power plant consists of 10 identical gas-engine-driven generators of 9MW, with a net fuel efficiency close to 44 per cent under all circumstances, irrespective of their load.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"17 1-4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114117760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070611
M. Venables
{"title":"A crude awakening","authors":"M. Venables","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070611","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070611","url":null,"abstract":"Following on from Al Gore's box office success 'An Inconvenient Truth' comes a yarn about our reliance on the dwindling resources of oil.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"296 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130044886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Power EngineerPub Date : 2007-12-01DOI: 10.1049/PE:20070604
M. Venables
{"title":"Back to its roots","authors":"M. Venables","doi":"10.1049/PE:20070604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/PE:20070604","url":null,"abstract":"HVDC stands for High Voltage Direct Current, a well-proven technology used to transmit electricity over long distances by overhead transmission lines or submarine cables. It is also used to interconnect separate power systems, where traditional alternating current (AC) connections cannot be used. The reasons for selecting HVDC instead of AC for a specific project are often numerous and complex. The most common arguments in its favour are: lower investment cost, longdistance water-crossing, lower losses, asynchronous interconnections, controllability, limited short-circuit currents and environment.","PeriodicalId":182274,"journal":{"name":"Power Engineer","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2007-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131997923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}