{"id":287,"date":"2009-02-12T18:39:21","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eukota.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/thesis-preliminary-results\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:09:33","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T23:09:33","slug":"thesis-preliminary-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/2009\/02\/12\/thesis-preliminary-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Thesis – Preliminary Results"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Given specific power supply regions, this map is a gradient of distance to the nearest power supply.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I am chugging right along on my MS Thesis and I am happy to say that I am nearing the results. Above is an image of a plot produced in the program. The shape in the middle is Humboldt County. I have specified power supply sources in the general vicinity of three already existent biomass (woodchip) power plants near Samoa (Fairhaven Power Company), Scotia (formerly PALCO — now called Humboldt Redwood Company), and Blue Lake (Ultrapower 3) as well as a wind power plant (by Shell on Bear RIver Ridge), ocean wave power plant (by PG&E off the coast and north of Humboldt Bay), and solar power plant (placed in Blue Lake because I know it’s sunny there). The gradient represents distance to the nearest power supply where white is closest and dark-blue furthest. I was able to get a one-year load shape for Humboldt County recorded every 15 minutes. I also used local resources for hourly wind, wave, and solar data. This gives the model a more resonant and realistic fluctuation and makes it unnecessary for me to implement stochastic fluctuations of my own.<\/p>\n

I am doing a 10 minute presentation about my thesis at the 2009 North Coast Student Research Conference<\/a> March 26-28, 2009. For the conference, I hope to have three scenarios running —<\/p>\n

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  1. current Humboldt County Power system – this will include the Humboldt Bay PG&E Natural Gas Fired plant as well as the three transmission lines we import much of our power from<\/li>\n
  2. infinite intermittent supply – this will show the patterns of the sun rising and winds and waves changing<\/li>\n
  3. realistic (relatively) intermittent supply – an attempt to meet 100% of demand using only the sources listed in the above plot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Drop me a line sometime with comments or questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I am chugging right along on my MS Thesis and I am happy to say that I am nearing the results. Above is an image of a plot produced in the program. The shape in the middle is Humboldt County. I have specified power supply …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eukota.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}