Energy Mix And Base Load Optimization To Reduce Environmental Impacts

Authors

  • Maneesha Naresh , Dr. Manoj Kumar Nigam,Dr. Shashwati Ray

Abstract

The Government of India’s (GOI) policy to increase renewable energy share to 430
GW by 2030 will have major implications on conventional sources of generation.
Conventional sources of energy, especially coal, to be relevant, will have to be utilized in
most efficient manner for base load generation. Solar(or renewables) cannot be the solution
in isolation. Other sources like Hydro and gas have to supplement solar to achieve proper
balance in system, at the same time addressing climate change commitment as well.The
capacity of base load power station provides a continuous power supply throughout the year
with some minimum power generation requirement. In India coal/thermal power plants serve
the base load plants. With this in backdrop, this paper attempts to arrive at optimum base load
power generation capacity and to optimize share of coal in base load generation capacity in
the changing scenario of energy mix. This is done by seeing the normal hourly demand for
the state of Maharashtra, India for the entire year, 2017. For achieving the proper balance in
the system other sources like hydro and gas have to supplement coal for base load at the same
time addressing climate change commitment as well.

Published

2020-12-02

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