Domestic power and the deregulated market

✍ Scribed by David Hart

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 539 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-2859
• DOI: 10.1016/s1464-2859(00)80073-5

✦ Synopsis

Domestic-scale fuel cells of a few kilowatts potentially offer a very attractive package -cheap power and heat entirely under one's own control. They also raise the possibility of massive structural changes in electricity supply, from a few large, centralised power plants to a multitude of small, distributed generators. This not only has profound technical, economic and regulatory significance; it also requires some careful consideration of the pitfalls that may lie ahead.