California ramping: Siemens' first Flex-Plant 30 is due to go commercial in September

摘要

With increasing amounts of weather dependent renewables on his system, and about 900 MW of wind generation able to come on to the grid and disappear from it within a 30 minute time frame, "flexibility is the holy grail" believes Stephen Berberich, CEO of the California ISO. But in the Lodi Energy Center, which, according to Siemens will be the first "first fast start combined cycle power plant in the USA in commercial operation", he seems to have found it.