A company with two plants, has a contract with an industrial customer that has a demand as shown in the following figure. Calculate: a. The energy consumed per day and per year b. The average demand of the customer c. The annual load factor

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A company with two plants, has a contract with an industrial customer that has a demand as shown in the following figure. Calculate:
a. The energy consumed per day and per year
b. The average demand of the customer
c. The annual load factor
d. Define the base, peak and reserve plant capacity for this customer? (observation is a customer that does not allow interruption of supply). Must have 10% reserve.
- Reservoir plant - 80% load factor
- Run-of-river power plant - load factor 40%.
- Diesel power plant - load factor 15%.
- Coal-fired power plant - load factor 20%.
e. Generation time and utilization factor of the peaking power plant.



DEMAND FROM AN INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMER
1200
1000
800
600
400
200
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24
450 350 300 250 200 250 400 450 400 350 400 450 500 450 400 450 550 650 850 100 900 600550 500
POWER
POWER SUPPLIED IN MW
Transcribed Image Text:DEMAND FROM AN INDUSTRIAL CUSTOMER 1200 1000 800 600 400 200 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 450 350 300 250 200 250 400 450 400 350 400 450 500 450 400 450 550 650 850 100 900 600550 500 POWER POWER SUPPLIED IN MW
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