Electricity delivery

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Electricity delivery
Concepts Automatic generation control • Backfeeding • Base load • Demand factor • Droop speed control • Economic dispatch • Electric power • Demand management • Energy return on investment • Electrical fault • Home energy storage • Grid storage • Grid code • Grid strength • Load-following • Merit order • Nameplate capacity • Peak demand • Power factor • Power quality • Power-flow study • Repowering • Utility frequency • Variability • Vehicle-to-grid
Sources Non-renewable Fossil fuel power station • Coal • Natural gas • Petroleum • Oil shale • Nuclear
Renewable Biogas • Biofuel • Biomass • Geothermal • Hydro • Marine • Current • Osmotic • Thermal • Tidal • Wave • Solar • Sustainable biofuel • Wind
Generation AC power • Cogeneration • Combined cycle • Cooling tower • Induction generator • Micro CHP • Microgeneration • Rankine cycle • Three-phase electric power • Virtual power plant
Transmission
and distribution
Demand response • Distributed generation • Dynamic demand • Electric power distribution • Electricity retailing • Electrical busbar system • Electric power system • Electric power transmission • Electrical grid • Electrical interconnector • High-voltage direct current • High-voltage shore connection • Load management • Mains electricity by country • Power line • Power station • Pumped hydro • Smart grid • Substation • Single-wire earth return • Super grid • Transformer • Transmission system operator (TSO) • Transmission tower • Utility pole
Failure modes Blackout (Rolling blackout) • Brownout • Black start • Cascading failure
Protective
devices
Arc-fault circuit interrupter • Circuit breaker • Earth-leakage circuit breaker • Generator interlock kit • Residual-current device (GFI) • Power system protection • Protective relay • Numerical relay • Sulfur hexafluoride circuit breaker
Economics
and policies
Availability factor • Capacity factor • Carbon offset • Cost of electricity by source • Environmental tax • Energy subsidies • Feed-in tariff • Fossil fuel phase-out • Load factor • Net metering • Pigovian tax • Renewable Energy Certificates • Renewable energy payments • Renewable energy policy • Spark/Dark/Quark/Bark spread
Statistics and
production
List of electricity sectors • Electric energy consumption