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is a strategy used by electricity utilities tocontrol demand by encouraging consumers to modify their level and pattern of electricity usage.
Demand Side Management(DSM)
is a strategy used by electricity utilities tocontrol demand by encouraging consumers to modify their level and pattern of electricity usage.
Demand Side Management(DSM)
Why is demand side management important?
because they canhelp users become more efficient, thereby saving energy. Energy savings, in turn, results in bothlower costs and a benefit to the environmentin terms of lower emissions.
What are the benefits of demand side management?
Firstly, it helpsreduce market prices for electricityby freeing the utility from the expense of building backup (and sometimes fossil-fueled) plants that are brought online to cope with peak demand
It reduces the costs of managing the electricity grid
By smoothing out demand, it results in a more efficient and dependable electricity network
What are the benefits of demand side management?
Firstly, it helpsreduce market prices for electricityby freeing the utility from the expense of building backup (and sometimes fossil-fueled) plants that are brought online to cope with peak demand
It reduces the costs of managing the electricity grid
By smoothing out demand, it results in a more efficient and dependable electricity network
Ways to save energy
- Unplug appliances when not in used
- Install LED lights
Ways to save energy
- Unplug appliances when not in used
- Install LED lights
Ways to save energy
- Unplug appliances when not in used
- Install LED lights
What is a mechanical power plant?
A power plant isan industrial facility used to generate.electric power with the help of one or more generators which converts different energy sources into electric power.
At the core of the power plant, there isa generator that converts mechanical energy into electrical energy by creating an interplay between the conductor and the magnetic field. In most power plants, one or more generators are used to convert mechanical energy into electrical power.
Power Plants Parts
- Furnace
- Boiler
- Turbine
- Generator
- Cooling Tower
Power Plants Parts
- Furnace
- Boiler
- Turbine
- Generator
- Cooling Tower
The fuel is burned in a giant furnace to release heat energy
Furnace
heat from the furnace flows around pipes full of cold water. The heat boils the water and turns it into steam
Boiler
The steam flows at high-pressure around a wheel that’s a bit like a windmill made of tightly packed metal blades. The blades start turning as the steam flows past. Known as a steam turbine, this device is designed to convert the steam’s energy into kinetic energy (the energy of something moving). For the turbine to work efficiently, heat must enter it at a really high temperature and pressure and leave at as low a temperature and pressure as possible.
Turbine
The turbine is linked by an axle to a generator, so the generator spins around with the turbine blades. As it spins, the generator uses the kinetic energy from the turbine to make electricity
Generator
The turbine is linked by an axle to a generator, so the generator spins around with the turbine blades. As it spins, the generator uses the kinetic energy from the turbine to make electricity
Generator
The giant, jug-shaped at old power plants make the turbine more efficient. Boiling hot water from the steam turbine is cooled in a heat exchanger called a condenser. Then it’s sprayed into the giant cooling towers and pumped back for reuse. Most of the water condenses on the walls of the towers and drips back down again. Only a small amount of the water used escapes as steam from the towers themselves, but huge amounts of heat and energy are lost.
Cooling tower
The giant, jug-shaped at old power plants make the turbine more efficient. Boiling hot water from the steam turbine is cooled in a heat exchanger called a condenser. Then it’s sprayed into the giant cooling towers and pumped back for reuse. Most of the water condenses on the walls of the towers and drips back down again. Only a small amount of the water used escapes as steam from the towers themselves, but huge amounts of heat and energy are lost.
Cooling tower
Types of Power Plant
- Thermal Power Plant
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Hydro Power Plant
- Solar Power Plant
- Wind Power Plant
Types of Power Plant
- Thermal Power Plant
- Nuclear Power Plant
- Hydro Power Plant
- Solar Power Plant
- Wind Power Plant
a facility that converts atomic energy into usable power. In a nuclear electric power plant, heat produced by a reactor is generally used to drive a turbine which in turn drives an electric generator.
Nuclear Power Plant
isa renewable source of energy that generates power by using a dam or diversion structure to alter the natural flow of a river or other body of water.
Hydro Power Plant
a utility-scale commercial facility that converts sunlight into electricity, whether by photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar thermal devices (CST), or various experimental solar technologies, for the primary purpose of wholesale or retail sales of generated electricity.
Solar Power Plant
a utility-scale commercial facility that converts sunlight into electricity, whether by photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar thermal devices (CST), or various experimental solar technologies, for the primary purpose of wholesale or retail sales of generated electricity.
Solar Power Plant
