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Chapter 5—Electrical Network 5–44<br />

of each generating plant and its forced outage rate, (2) the daily hourly-integrated peak loads<br />

(the greatest energy sales in any one hour of the day), (3) maintenance requirements for<br />

each unit, and (4) other special features such as seasonal deratings or energy interchange<br />

contracts. The single point resulting from this calculation is spread out into a curve by<br />

varying the assumed annual peak load for that year by ±20 percent and each daily peak by<br />

the same fraction. As the assumed peak load increases for the same generation, the annual<br />

risk increases. A curve such as the original system curve of Fig. 23 is the result.<br />

Figure 23: Annual risk before and after adding a new unit.<br />

The proposed new generating plant is then added to the system while keeping all other<br />

data fixed. We again vary the annual peak load with the daily peaks considered as a fixed<br />

percentage of the annual peak. Adding this unit reduces the risk at a given load, so we<br />

consider a somewhat larger range of loads, perhaps a zero to 40 percent increase over the<br />

previous midpoint load. The result can be plotted into the second curve of Fig. 23. The<br />

distance in megawatts between these curves at the desired risk level is the amount of load<br />

growth the system can accept and still retain the same reliability. This distance is the effective<br />

capability or effective capacity of the new unit. The effective capacity will typically be between<br />

60 and 85 percent of rated capacity for new fossil or nuclear power plants. If it is at 75 percent,<br />

this means that a 1000-MW generating plant will be able to support 750 MW of increased<br />

load. The remaining 250 MW will be considered reserve capacity.<br />

The effective capacity is not identical to the capacity factor or plant factor, which was<br />

defined in Chapter 4 as the ratio of average power production to the rated power. Capacity<br />

factor is calculated independently of the timing of the load cycle, while effective capacity<br />

includes the effect of the utility hourly demand profile. Effective capacity may be either<br />

larger or smaller than the capacity factor. An oil fired gas turbine may have an actual<br />

Wind Energy Systems by Dr. Gary L. Johnson November 21, 2001

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