J906e: Typical Power Plant Power Output and End-Use Power Demands (kW)

Typical Power Plant Power Output and End-Use Power Demands

In addition to economic benefits, other motivations helping to drive the transition toward small-scale, decentralized energy systems include increased concern for environmental impacts of generation, most especially those related to climate change, increased concern for the vulnerability of our centralized energy systems to terrorist attacks, and increased demands for electricity reliability in the digital economy.
A sense of the dramatic decrease in scale that is underway is provided in Table (top), in which a number of generation technologies are listed along with typical power outputs. For comparison, some examples of power demands of typical end uses are also shown. While the power ratings of some of the distributed generation options may look trivially small, it is the potentially large numbers of replicated small units that will make their contribution significant. For example, the U.S. auto industry builds around 6 million cars each year. If half of those were 60-kW fuel-cell vehicles, the combined generation capacity of
5-year’s worth of automobile production would be greater than the total installed capacity of all U.S. power plants.

Source:
Gilbert M. Masters. “Renewable and Efficient Electric Power Systems”. Jhon Wiley & Sons, Inc., New Jersey. ISBN 0-471-28060-7. 2004

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