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Tuesday, June 07, 2011

A Hybrid Power Plant Takes Shape in Turkey - NYTimes.com

"A Hybrid Power Plant Takes Shape in Turkey
By MATTHEW L. WALD
The design for a hybrid electric plant that makes steam from natural gas and from solar power, supplemented by wind machines.General ElectricA hybrid electric plant designed by General Electric. Mirrors focus sunlight on power towers, top right, that make steam that is injected through pipes into a turbine,center, to make electricity. Wind turbines, rear, make electricity to either help run the plant or to feed the grid.

How can the electric system take intermittent energy sources like wind and sun and integrate them with conventional fuels for electricity, like natural gas?"

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