| Title |
Fuel Cell as an Alternative Distributed Generation Source under Deregulated Power Systems |
| Authors |
이광연(Lee, Kwang-Y.) ; 김세호(Kim, Se-Ho) ; 김일환(Kim, Eel-Hwan) ; 김호찬(Kim, Ho-Chan) |
| Keywords |
Deregulation ; Distributed Generation ; Fuel Cells |
| Abstract |
Because of the trend of deregulation, power industry is going through an unprecedented transformation in North America and Europe, and there are a host of acquisitions and mergers by the private sector to position themselves to take advantage of new business opportunities. Deregulation has accelerated the development of smaller generators and fuel cells will gradually become more attractive to mainstream electricity users as they improve in capability and decrease in cost. Fuel Cell technology is surveyed and the potential of using fuel cell as a distributed generation source is presented. This paper recommends the fuel cell power plants as alternative energy sources for distributed generation in Jeju Island, Korea. This will help in increasing fuel efficiency, at least double the current thermal plants', increasing the reliability of power supply, reducing the dependency on the HVDC link, providing quality power to the growing infrastructure, and maintaining clean air in meeting the free-trade international island. |