The Influence of Small-Scale Power Plant Supporting Schemes on the Public Trader and Consumers
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Institute of Power Engineering, Riga Technical University, Azenes Str. 12/1, LV-1069 Riga, Latvia
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Mmeka Construction and Industry Trade Inc. Orucreis Mah. Tekstilkent Koza Plaza. A Blok. Kat 12. No.:46, Esenler, 34220 Istanbul, Turkey
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Academic Editor: Rodolfo Araneo
Energies 2017, 10(6), 800; https://doi.org/10.3390/en10060800
Received: 13 February 2017
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Revised: 2 June 2017
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Accepted: 6 June 2017
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Published: 12 June 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 16 IEEE International Conference on Environment and Electrical Engineering (EEEIC 2016))
The mechanism of support schemes for achieving the required share of renewable energy sources (RES) was implemented into the energy sector. The issued amount of support requires state subsidies. The end-users of electricity are paying the mandatory procurement component taxes to cover these subsidies. The article examines the way of minimizing the influence of the existing RES supporting schemes on the consumers. The fixed purchased electricity price in the case of RES does not encourage producers to operate at hours of peak consumption or when the price is high. Modification of the RES support mechanisms at the legislative level, firstly, could minimize the influence of the mandatory procurement component on the end-users’ electricity price, and secondly, could provide a great opportunity for the public trader to forecast the operation of small power plants and their generation abilities. Numerical experiments with models of two types of power plants (biofuel and hydropower) prove the existence of a problem and the presence of a solution. This problem constitutes the main subject of the present paper.
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Keywords:
energy supply; biofuel; hydropower; supporting schemes; optimization; mandatory procurement
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Varfolomejeva, R.; Sauhats, A.; Sokolovs, N.; Coban, H. The Influence of Small-Scale Power Plant Supporting Schemes on the Public Trader and Consumers. Energies 2017, 10, 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/en10060800
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Varfolomejeva R, Sauhats A, Sokolovs N, Coban H. The Influence of Small-Scale Power Plant Supporting Schemes on the Public Trader and Consumers. Energies. 2017; 10(6):800. https://doi.org/10.3390/en10060800
Chicago/Turabian StyleVarfolomejeva, Renata, Antans Sauhats, Nikita Sokolovs, and Hasan Coban. 2017. "The Influence of Small-Scale Power Plant Supporting Schemes on the Public Trader and Consumers" Energies 10, no. 6: 800. https://doi.org/10.3390/en10060800
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