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7 changes: 5 additions & 2 deletions source/energy/conversion/electricity.rst
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Expand Up @@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ MESSAGE covers a large number of electricity generation options utilizing a wide

Four different nuclear power plant types are represented in MESSAGE, i.e. two light water reactor types, a fast breeder reactor and a high temperature reactor, but only the two light water types are included in the majority of scenarios being developed with MESSAGE in the recent past. In addition, MESSAGE includes a representation of the nuclear fuel cycle, including reprocessing and the plutonium fuel cycle, and keeps track of the amounts of nuclear waste being produced.

The conversion of five renewable energy sources to electricity is represented in MESSAGE (see :numref:`tab-elec`). For wind power, both on- and offshore electricity generation are covered and for solar energy, photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal (concentrating solar power, CSP) electricity generation are included in MESSAGE (see also sections on :ref:`renewable` and :ref:`syst_integration`).
The conversion of five renewable energy sources to electricity is represented in MESSAGE (see :numref:`tab-elec`). For wind power, both on- and offshore electricity generation are covered and for solar energy, photovoltaics (PV) and solar thermal (concentrating solar power, CSP) electricity generation are included in MESSAGE (see also sections on :ref:`renewable` and :ref:`syst_integration`).
Two CSP technologies are modeled: (1) a flexible plant with a solar multiple of one (SM1) and 6 h of thermal storage and (2) a baseload plant with a solar multiple of three (SM3) and 12 h of storage (Johnson et al. 2016, :cite:`johnson_vre_2016`).

Most thermal power plants offer the option of coupled heat production (CHP, see :numref:`tab-elec`). This option is modeled as a passout turbine via a penalty on the electricity generation efficiency. In addition to the main electricity generation technologies described in this section, also the co-generation of electricity in conversion technologies primarily devoted to producing non-electric energy carriers (e.g., synthetic liquid fuels) is included in MESSAGE (see section on :ref:`other`).

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| solar | solar photovoltaics (PV) | no |
| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| | concentrating solar power (CSP) | no |
| | concentrating solar power (CSP) with a solar multiple of 1 (SM1) | no |
| +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| | concentrating solar power (CSP) with a solar multiple of 3 (SM3) | no |
+------------------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------+
| geothermal | geothermal power plant | yes |
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