Choice of the type and size of electric power plant
The increase of electric power consumption all over the world has accelerated to such a degree that it requires each year the provision of new supply facilities with improved efficiency, reduced operation costs and greater reliability. The average world rate of increase proved over the past 50 years is 1.2 percent, and the compound effect means that consumption is doubled every ten years and thus in each subsequent decade as much new production capacity is necessary as the existing total available at the beginning of that decade. During the present decade the increased demand for electricity reached such a level that each year about 40,000,000 kms of new production capacity was required to meet it. In other words, the establishment of adequate new investment projects requires now an annual outlay of about U.S $ 6,000 million. These are only investments for new power plants and accordingly they do not comprise the investments for transmission lines, transformer stations and distribution networks.
| Format: | Conference document biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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1963-10
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10855/8342 |
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