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Opportunities and Challenges for Nuclear-Renewable Hybrid Energy Systems

Conference ·
OSTI ID:1826532
Nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems (also known as integrated nuclear-renewable systems) are conceptual systems that have two or more energy inputs and produce two or more products. They maximize profitability, and usually equipment utilization, by adjusting between the products depending upon the availability of resources and market value. For example a nuclear-renewable hybrid energy system that produces electricity and hydrogen would maximize sales of electricity when its price is high and shift to hydrogen production when the electricity price is low. This presentation summarizes the results of several economic analyses of nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems and they key overall conclusions from those analyses.
Research Organization:
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis (JISEA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC36-08GO28308
OSTI ID:
1826532
Report Number(s):
NREL/PR-6A50-81121; MainId:79897; UUID:68c53f95-1a54-4cb5-9e5e-a3d3cf4050d7; MainAdminID:63175
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English