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In addition, district heating systems with CHP <strong>and</strong> heat storages offer some of <strong>the</strong>flexibility in electricity generation that is required <strong>for</strong> wind power <strong>and</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r intermittentelectricity generation.In contrast to current nuclear fission with light water reactors, which operate at relativelylow temperatures, <strong>the</strong> steam parameters <strong>for</strong> fusion – with temperatures in <strong>the</strong> range 600-800ºC – are similar to advanced coal or combined cycle gas turbines. This is suitable notonly <strong>for</strong> CHP, but also o<strong>the</strong>r types of co-generation, e.g. catalytic hydrogen generation.6 Modelling6.1 The EFDA-TIMES model on fusion energyAs a part of <strong>the</strong> research under <strong>the</strong> European Fusion Development Agreement (EFDA)<strong>the</strong>re is a small programme on Socio-Economic Research on Fusion (SERF). Thisincludes <strong>the</strong> EFDA-TIMES model, which was originally developed <strong>for</strong> EFDA by anexternal consortium of experts <strong>and</strong> delivered in 2004. The motivation <strong>for</strong> thisdevelopment was that fusion power was not considered in existing long-term energyscenarios, <strong>and</strong> that <strong>the</strong> earlier energy scenario studies within EFDA only consideredWestern Europe or used a basic single-region global model. The structure <strong>and</strong> data of <strong>the</strong>EFDA-TIMES model came from <strong>the</strong> SAGE 2 model, which has been used by <strong>the</strong> USDepartment of <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir International <strong>Energy</strong> Outlook from 2002 to 2008.The current development <strong>and</strong> use of <strong>the</strong> EFDA-TIMES model considers a validation <strong>and</strong>benchmarking phase <strong>for</strong> EFDA-TIMES <strong>and</strong> joint contributions to international energymodelling conferences6.2 EFDA-TIMES with large-scale CHPTo underst<strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> cost of electricity <strong>and</strong> heat from cogeneration <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> impact of <strong>the</strong>recent technical development it is necessary to describe a set of techno-economicparameters, which are derived from <strong>the</strong> <strong>the</strong>rmodynamics of generation of electricity.Figure 3 shows <strong>the</strong> operating area <strong>for</strong> CHP units. Back-pressure units produce along <strong>the</strong>back-pressure line. Extraction-condensing unit produces within <strong>the</strong> maxima <strong>and</strong> minima<strong>for</strong> power <strong>and</strong> heat. The vertical axis represents condensing (electricity-only) capacity.The iso-fuel line describes <strong>the</strong> power-loss ratio. A typical value <strong>for</strong> both traditional <strong>and</strong>modern units is c v =0.15. Typical values <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> power-heat ratio are c m =0.5 <strong>for</strong> atraditional gas turbine, c m =0.7 <strong>for</strong> a large modern extraction-condensing unit, <strong>and</strong> c m =1.0or more <strong>for</strong> a modern combined-cycle gas turbine <strong>for</strong> decentralised CHP.Figure 3 usually describes <strong>the</strong> operation area <strong>for</strong> electricity <strong>and</strong> heat production inindividual extraction-condensing units. For decades <strong>the</strong>se units in <strong>the</strong> capacity range250-500 MW have been <strong>the</strong> most important type of electricity generating units inDenmark, which have been systematically located at <strong>the</strong> heat distribution grids of <strong>the</strong>larger cities.2 System to Analyze Global <strong>Energy</strong>6Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 61

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