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Electricity generation

Concepts

Availability factor · Baseload · Black start · Capacity factor · Demand factor · Demand management · EROEI · Grid storage · Intermittency · Load following · Peak demand · Repowering · Spark spread

Sources

Nonrenewable	Coal · Fossil fuel power plant · Natural gas · Petroleum · Nuclear · Oil shale

Renewable	Biomass · Geothermal · Hydro · Marine · Solar · Wind

AC power · Cogeneration · Combined cycle · Cooling tower · Induction generator · Micro CHP · Microgeneration · Rankine cycle · Three-phase_electric_power · Virtual power plant

Demand response · Distributed generation · Dynamic demand · Electricity distribution · Electrical grid · High-voltage direct current · Load control · Pumped hydro · Negawatts · Smart grid · Substation · Super grid · TSO · Transmission tower · Utility pole

Policies

Carbon offset · Coal phase out · Ecotax · Energy subsidies · Feed-in tariff · Net metering · Pigovian tax · Renewable Energy Certificates · Renewable energy payments · Renewable energy policy

Categories: Electric power distribution · Electricity economics · Power station technology · Portals: Energy · Sustainable development

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