Power Plant Cycling Costs

By Nikhil Kumar, P. Besuner, S. Lefton, D. Agan, Douglas Hilleman. 2012

323 citations recorded by the source corpus.

This report provides a detailed review of the most up to date data available on power plant cycling costs. The primary objective of this report is to increase awareness of power plant cycling cost, the use of these costs in renewable integration studies and to stimulate debate between policymakers, system dispatchers, plant personnel and power utilities.

Subfields: Environmental Engineering, Pollution, Water Science and Technology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/84b641f52bbb7d336e1e9d844d88206202475468

Citations in the corpus

• Intermittency and the Value of Renewable Energy (2011, unknown): “We obtain start-up costs from a National Renewable Energy Laboratory report (see Kumar et al. 2012) that calculates median capital and maintenance costs and associated fuel usage per cold, warm, and hot start-up by generator type and size category.”