by ronfluegge
25. September 2018 20:53
Natural gas fuel starvation at large power plants in the U.S. and the effect of gas delivery arrangements on reliability
Gerad Freeman, Jay Apt & John Moura
36th USAEE/IAEE North America Conference
Washington, D.C.
September 25, 2018
Power plant failures are correlated with each other
Planners use historical data to anticipate the amount of power plant capacity needed.
• They previously assumed that power plants fail independently.
• In 2018, Murphy et al. showed that this assumption was violated in most regions
• This could lead to increased risks of blackouts.
• They did not identify why there were correlated power plant failures.
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