The Benefits of Distributed Resources to Local Governments

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Guide Economic DevelopmentGoal: Attract Information Industries• Can tolerate expected outages of 15 min. per year• Electric grid has an expected 8 hours of outages per year (6hours from T&D problems, 2 hours from earthquakes)• Choose either fuel cell or PV/battery system• Fuel cell manufacturer gives 100% operation guarantee;natural gas supply has to be shut off four out of every fivetimes that there is an earthquake for safety reasons• PV/battery system supplier gives 99.9% operationguarantee under normal conditions; during earthquakes, ithas a 10 percent chance of failure
Natural Gas Fired Fuel CellExpected Outage = 1 hour 45 minutes/yearPower OutageProbabilityGrid Down(0.001)Earthquake(0.25)Gas Unavailable(0.80)Gas Available(0.20)2.0 x 10 -4-No Earthquake(0.75)Gas Available(1.0)-
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