Economic feasibility of a Dispatchable Standby Generator scheme for the island of Mauritius

Heman Shamachurn and Rahul Dev Bholah

Utilities Policy, 2018, vol. 53, issue C, 49-59

Abstract: This paper presents the economic feasibility study of having a Dispatchable Standby Generator (SG) scheme for the island of Mauritius. The total available SG capacity in the year 2016 was at least 157.4 MVA. Using the forecasted electricity demand, it is estimated that the SGs can supply the island's peak load more economically than the Nicolay power station. Despite the high diesel price, the proposed strategy would be highly profitable as from the first year of operation with a feed-in-tariff of 2.0 MUR/kWh, while simultaneously delaying investment from the Central Electricity Board to increase the generation capacity for the island.

Keywords: Mauritius; Standby generators; Peak electricity demand (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2018.06.006

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