The Limiting Factors and Supporting Schemes Influence on Small-Scale Power Plant Work

The society of EU in its striving to diminish climate change is aiming at a significant increase in the share of renewable energy sources (RES) in the gross produced electricity. Support schemes represent a key mechanism which allows achieving the above goal. Unfortunately, the use of the existing support schemes does not encourage producers who have a possibility of short-term energy storage to operate at hours of peak energy demand. Modification of the RES support mechanisms can create additional income for the producers and society. This problem is the main subject of the presented paper. We use a simple methodology based on numerical experiments with models of two types of power plants, namely, biofuel and hydropower plants. The results prove the existence of problems and the presence of ways and tools to solve them.