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State advisory group outlines framework to ‘decarbonize the peak’ and assess peaker plants and CHP alternatives
Summary
Working group tracking peaker plants and combined-heat-and-power facilities completed phase 1: defining resource roles, assessing reliability metrics, and setting a rubric for facility-level and system-level alternatives to reduce fossil fuel peaking emissions.
A Focus Area Working Group update summarized phase 1 findings on decarbonizing winter and summer peak demand by examining the role of peaker plants and combined heat and power (CHP) facilities and by outlining a two-track assessment across four demonstration sites.
Presenters said peaker plants—defined by the working group as dispatchable thermal resources operating less than 50% of the time—supply a disproportionate share of capacity relative to their annual energy contribution. The group noted an illustrative finding: in some hours the region’s peakers supply a large share of capacity while contributing only about…
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