Investigation of Daytime Peak Loads to Improve the Power Generation Costs of Solar-Integrated Power Systems

Table 1

Characteristics of the ten thermal generation units [19].

Unit	Power limits		Fuel cost coefficients					Ramp rate limits
	(MW)	(MW)						(MW/h)	(MW/h)
1	150	470	0.00043	21.6	958.2	450	0.041	80	80
2	135	460	0.00063	21.05	1313.6	600	0.036	80	80
3	73	340	0.00039	20.81	604.97	320	0.028	80	80
4	60	300	0.0007	23.9	471.6	260	0.052	50	50
5	73	243	0.00079	21.62	480.29	280	0.063	50	50
6	57	160	0.00056	17.87	601.75	310	0.048	50	50
7	20	130	0.00211	16.51	502.7	300	0.086	30	30
8	47	120	0.0048	23.23	639.4	340	0.082	30	30
9	20	80	0.10908	19.58	455.6	270	0.098	30	30
10	55	55	0.00951	22.54	692.4	380	0.094	30	30