'Emerging Technologies and Material Challenges'

摘要

The way in which electrical power companies operate has changed dramatically since the,rnalmost world wide, power industry deregulation and this has, in turn, had a major influence onrnthe role of the electrical power equipment manufacturing industry. Notwithstanding this thernphysical way in which electricity is supplied to end customers has changed little sincernderegulation. Electrical power systems still very largely operate in unison, as one largernelectrical, constant frequency machine where electricity generation is constantly attempting tornmatch the ever changing loads. Perhaps the only major change from the concept of large powerrnstations, remote from load centres and consequential integrated transmission systems, hasrnbeen the available supplies of gas through existing gas networks. This has allowed gas-firedrngeneration to be more readily applied which can be built quickly and placed closer to loadrncentres.