Electricity delivery
Electricity delivery is the process that starts after generation of electricity in the power station, up to the use by the consumer.[1] The main processes in electricity delivery are, by order:
- Transmission
- Distribution
- Retailing
See also
- Electrical grid
- Electricity supply
References
- ^ Very simple lay tutorial on power delivery
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Electricity delivery
- Automatic generation control
- Backfeeding
- Base load
- Demand factor
- Droop speed control
- Electric power
- Electric power quality
- Electrical fault
- Energy demand management
- Energy return on investment
- Grid code
- Grid energy storage
- Grid strength
- Home energy storage
- Load-following
- Merit order
- Nameplate capacity
- Peak demand
- Power factor
- Power-flow study
- Repowering
- Utility frequency
- Variability
- Vehicle-to-grid
| Non-renewable | |
|---|---|
| Renewable |
- Demand response
- Distributed generation
- Dynamic demand
- Electric power distribution
- Electric power system
- Electric power transmission
- Electrical busbar system
- Electrical grid
- Electrical substation
- Electricity retailing
- High-voltage direct current
- High-voltage shore connection
- Interconnector
- Load management
- Mains electricity by country
- Overhead power line
- Power station
- Pumped hydro
- Single-wire earth return
- Smart grid
- Super grid
- Transformer
- Transmission system operator (TSO)
- Transmission tower
- Utility pole
Protective
devices
devices
Economics
and policies
and policies
- Availability factor
- Capacity factor
- Carbon offsets and credits
- Cost of electricity by source
- Energy subsidies
- Environmental tax
- Feed-in tariff
- Fossil fuel phase-out
- Load factor
- Net metering
- Pigouvian tax
- Renewable Energy Certificates
- Renewable energy commercialization
- Renewable Energy Payments
- Spark/Dark/Quark/Bark spread
Statistics and
production
production
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