Achieving higher emission reductions on one hand and employing lower cost concepts on the other hand are desirable in designing future power generator systems. Hence, interdisciplinary studies in a form of system concept modeling should be employed to conceptualize and construct economic and efficient low-carbon system concepts. The concept modeling starts with simple idealized models that preserve the key structural features of a system and adds complex features in the following stages to elucidate principles, relationships, and interfaces. For wind systems, the essential features for concept modeling are wind and load variations, and the main goal is to obtain the cost of electricity delivered by the system as a function of wind penetration (emission reduction); more complex features (storage, photovoltaic, transmission, etc.) are added in the following stages. In this work, an interdisciplinary concept modeling is provided to estimate the magnitude of cost versus performance using the wind/load data from Pennsylvania New Jersey Maryland Interconnection (PJM) LLC, and cost estimations published by the Energy Information Agency. The results show that system total cost increases modestly at low penetration, and it increases more rapidly when wind curtailment becomes significant. Eventually storage becomes cheaper than curtailment. The key question that should be answered in this modeling is the magnitude of electricity cost for high penetration, low emission systems.
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ASME 2014 Power Conference
July 28–31, 2014
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Power Division
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978-0-7918-4609-4
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Cost Performance Tradeoff Study of Low-Carbon System Concepts
Navid Goudarzi,
Navid Goudarzi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
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Alex Pavlak
Alex Pavlak
Future of Energy Initiative, Severna Park, MD
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Navid Goudarzi
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Alex Pavlak
Future of Energy Initiative, Severna Park, MD
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POWER2014-32173, V002T09A015; 9 pages
Published Online:
November 19, 2014
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Goudarzi, N, & Pavlak, A. "Cost Performance Tradeoff Study of Low-Carbon System Concepts." Proceedings of the ASME 2014 Power Conference. Volume 2: Simple and Combined Cycles; Advanced Energy Systems and Renewables (Wind, Solar and Geothermal); Energy Water Nexus; Thermal Hydraulics and CFD; Nuclear Plant Design, Licensing and Construction; Performance Testing and Performance Test Codes; Student Paper Competition. Baltimore, Maryland, USA. July 28–31, 2014. V002T09A015. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/POWER2014-32173
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