Study of Benefits of Improved Powerplant Reliability and Productivity. Phase 1 Report. Factors Considered in Planning Generation

摘要

In March, 1975, a Federal Interagency Task Group published a report entitled, ''A Report on Improving the Productivity of Electric Power Plants''. One of the recommendations of the report was that an appropriate agency should analyze and report on the benefits of improved power plant reliability. This two-phase contract is an outgrowth of that recommendation. The first phase describes the current state-of-the-art utility generation planning, noting what factors are currently considered and the role played by power plant productivity, what methodologies are used by planners, and how the planning results from these methodologies are implemented. In this context, a preliminary determination is made of how increased power plant productivity might help to achieve national energy goals of reducing consumption of oil and natural gas, mitigating rising electricity costs to the consumer, and reducing the amount of new electric-generating capacity required and the capital investment associated with it. Ten utilities provided input to this first-phase report. The second phase of the contract, to be reported on in the fourth quarter of 1977, was to conduct an in-depth study of the benefits of improved nuclear and coal power plant productivity, based upon an analysis of two utility systems that have wide differences in generation fuel mix. (ERA citation 03:048184)