Optimizing fusion power plant maintenance for electricity grid integration
Published on:
2 May 2024
Primary Category:
Physics and Society
Paper Authors:
Jacob A. Schwartz,
W. Ricks,
E. Kolemen,
J. D. Jenkins
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Electricity price seasonality enables strategic maintenance scheduling
Value losses are less than proportional to lower availability
Frequent short maintenance can raise value over long outages
Component lifetimes and costs determine optimal strategies
2-6 week maintenance preparation/re-commissioning is valuable
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Optimizing fusion power plant maintenance for electricity grid integration
This paper examines optimal maintenance strategies for fusion plants as part of future decarbonized power systems. It finds the value of a plant depends significantly on aligning outage schedules with seasons of low electricity prices. Also, compared to longer outages, frequent short maintenance blocks can increase value despite lower availability.
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