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POTENTIAL OFF-GRID MARKETS FOR SMRS IN CANADA

Author(s) -

Daniel Wojtaszek

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

cnl nuclear review

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 2369-6931

pISSN - 2369-6923

DOI - 10.12943/cnr.2017.00007

Subject(s) - cogeneration , grid , nuclear power , environmental economics , electricity , business , base load power plant , electricity market , modular design , distributed generation , range (aeronautics) , electricity generation , renewable energy , power (physics) , economics , engineering , computer science , electrical engineering , geography , ecology , physics , geodesy , quantum mechanics , aerospace engineering , biology , operating system

Small modular reactors (SMRs), with <300 MWe power capacity (∼1000 MWth), are being developed to improve the safety and economics of nuclear power and to expand the application of nuclear power beyond large-scale electricity grids. A key factor to improving the economics of SMRs is the ability to capitalize on the economies associated with replication. But to capitalize on these economies, there must be a market with demands for a sufficient number of the produced SMRs. The purpose of this analysis is to estimate the market for SMRs for off-grid applications in Canada.The potential market for SMRs in off-grid applications in Canada includes remote communities, remote mining projects, oil sands extraction and upgrading, cogeneration in a wide range of industries, and district energy systems. This study found that the potential market for off-grid SMRs in Canada consists of over 600 power plants, with a total power demand of 35 GWe. Another important finding was that most of these power plants require an in...

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