Electric power technology
Subtitle: Opportunities and challenges of competition
By: IEA.
Publisher: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Electric utilities -- Technological innovations -- Economic aspects.; Electric utilities -- Technological innovations -- Forecasting.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-54).
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: INTRODUCTION 9; title: END OF FREE COMPLIANCE WITH GOVERNMENT; title: TECHNOLOGY WISHES 13; title: BETTER USE OF EXISTING PLANTS 15; title: Reliability and availability16; title: Incremental capacity additions18; title: Life extension and repowering 19; title: Smoothing demand peaks20; title: Operational flexibility22; title: LOWER OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE COSTS 23; title: Labour productivity23; title: Maintenance24; title: REDUCED FUEL COSTS25; title: Plant efficiency and process control 25; title: Fuel flexibility26; title: NEW CAPACITY29; title: Gas turbines dominate technology development 29; title: Still a place for conventional steam power plants, but nuclear struggles 33; title: Insurance against fuel price increases 35; title: Low-value fuels36; title: Size of new capacity38; title: Distributed generation39; title: Speed of delivering new capacity40; title: ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION TECHNOLOGY AND RENEWABLE 43; title: Environmental protection technology43; title: Renewables44; title: TRANSM ISSION 47; title: Control components47; title: Power transmission48; title: Ancillary services 49; title: Telecommunications50; title: SUM MARY AND CONCLUSIONS51; title: REFERENCES 53.