Potential of Environmental Dispatching

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Motivation: with a very large number of power plants contributing to the daily electrical power consumption of a power pool, and the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gasses may signal the need to change how choices are made in selecting different power sources to supply the grid

Approach: Analyze the PJM power pool using their data and information from EPA's eGrid software to determine the emissions reductions possible if power plancts were dispatched entirely associated with the environmental profile and not economics

Fundamental Issues: data available does not consider changes in a power plants performance when operating off peak. This is critical information need to take the next step .



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