Pocket Power Stations

Pocket Power Stations were an early commercial use of Gas Turbine engines (Bristol Proteus), by the South Western Electricity Board, to generate electricity for the grid. They were the world's first unmanned electricity generation stations.^[1]

References

External links

• Proteus Turbo Generator For World's First Unmanned Power Station
• BBC Pocket Power Station

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Electricity delivery

Concepts

• Automatic generation control
• Backfeeding
• Base load
• Demand factor
• Droop speed control
• Electric power
• Electric power quality
• Electrical fault
• Energy demand management
• Energy return on investment
• Grid code
• Grid energy storage
• Grid strength
• Home energy storage
• Load-following
• Merit order
• Nameplate capacity
• Peak demand
• Power factor
• Power-flow study
• Repowering
• Utility frequency
• Variability
• Vehicle-to-grid

Sources

Non-renewable	Fossil fuel power station Coal Natural gas Oil shale Petroleum Nuclear
Renewable	Biofuel Biogas Biomass Geothermal Hydro Marine Current Osmotic Thermal Tidal Wave Solar Sustainable biofuel Wind

Generation

• AC power
• Cogeneration
• Combined cycle
• Cooling tower
• Induction generator
• Micro CHP
• Microgeneration
• Rankine cycle
• Three-phase electric power
• Virtual power plant

Transmission
and distribution

• Demand response
• Distributed generation
• Dynamic demand
• Electric power distribution
• Electric power system
• Electric power transmission
• Electrical busbar system
• Electrical grid
• Electrical substation
• Electricity retailing
• High-voltage direct current
• High-voltage shore connection
• Interconnector
• Load management
• Mains electricity by country
• Overhead power line
• Power station
• Pumped hydro
• Single-wire earth return
• Smart grid
• Super grid
• Transformer
• Transmission system operator (TSO)
• Transmission tower
• Utility pole

Failure modes

• Black start
• Brownout
• Cascading failure
• Power outage
  • Rolling blackout

Protective
devices

• Arc-fault circuit interrupter
• Circuit breaker
  • Earth-leakage
  • Sulfur hexafluoride
• Generator interlock kit
• Numerical relay
• Power system protection
• Protective relay
• Residual-current device (GFI)

Economics
and policies

• Availability factor
• Capacity factor
• Carbon offsets and credits
• Cost of electricity by source
• Energy subsidies
• Environmental tax
• Feed-in tariff
• Fossil fuel phase-out
• Load factor
• Net metering
• Pigouvian tax
• Renewable Energy Certificates
• Renewable energy commercialization
• Renewable Energy Payments
• Spark/Dark/Quark/Bark spread

Statistics and
production

• Electric energy consumption
• List of electricity sectors

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