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 On Tuesday, November 26, 2013, in Virtonomics, there will be introduced one more, to be exact even two spheres of activity which were presented only indirectly before - energetics and ecology. 1. Coal power plants New unit type will be introduced:  power plants with coal specialization only for now.
Equipment:  coal power unit consisting of  steam turbine,  boiler,  heatexchange equipment and  coal mill (5 new products total at 4 new plants).
Coal power plants accept Coal of quality not lower than 1.25. For control over mentioned units, new qualification type is introduced -  Power industry.
By the principle of work, the power plant will be similar to usual plant, but with several fundamental differences the most important from which — the fact, that the produced electric power (measured in MWh) isn't usual stored product. The policy of sale of the electric power is defined by the energy grid, in which a power plant is included by its owner. In the first release five sales-policies are provided: 1 . World power grid: the produced energy is purchased by the independent dealer at the price equal to 25% from "world" price of electricity (now it is equal $100 / MWh). Thus, the first power plants will have the guaranteed unlimited sales at the price of $25 for MWh. 2 . Regional power grid: the produced energy is purchased by the region at the price not above the current "world" price, the regional auction of energy suppliers takes place each update, the energy not sold in update is purchased by the independent dealer at the price of 15% from "world". 3 . City power grid: the produced energy is purchased by the city at the price not above the regional price, the city auction of energy suppliers takes place each update, the energy not sold in update is purchased by the independent dealer at the price of 15% from "world". 4 . Corporate power grid: the produced energy is purchased by the enterprises, which are in this region and belonging to corporation, which the owner of power plant is a member of. Deliveries of energy take place only if selling price doesn't exceed regional tariffs. The not-sold energy irrevocably disappears in update. 5 . Private power network: the produced energy is purchased by the enterprises, which are located in this city and belonging to the owner of power plant. Deliveries of energy take place only if selling price doesn't exceed regional tariffs. The not-sold energy irrevocably disappears in update. Besides, the mechanism of technological levels will work differently for power plants. Growth of technologies won't increase power unit capacity, but will save fuel (coal) — 5% of economy for each new level by an accruing result (0.95 in degree). And low-quality fuel will reduce the production capacity of power plant. Multiplication of technological level by efficiency will characterize degree of ecological safety of station (some analog of products quality). The higher this indicator is, the more safe the station is concerning harmful atmospheric emissions. 2. Auction of energy Nothing difficult. At first the private and corporate power networks delivering energy directly to the enterprises are processed. Then the cities are calculated. If there are the power plants offering energy to the city at the price below, than the region, the city buys energy from them, preferring cheaper offers, and in case of equality of the price — to larger power plants. Then by the same principle regions are processed. The world market is not to be calculated — it is always ready to purchase the remaining energy: at power plants of a world power grid at the price of 25% from the base price, at power plants of regional and city power grids — at the price of 15% from basic. Once in virto-year, together with all other changes of salaries, taxes, etc., the world price for the electric power will change also. Principle is simple: few players go in for energy production — the price grows. It is a lot of players — the price aspires to trends set by players. Besides, once in virto-year ecologists re-estimate the recommendations and requirements for levels of ecological safety of power plants of realm. 3. Ecology and new mayor/governor's projects Environmental problems will be presented by four most painful for modern mankind problems: garbage, pollution from motor transport, industrial drains and emissions in the atmosphere from power plants. Each update in each city and in each region, there will be estimated degree of environmental problems on these four categories. Influence of adverse ecology will be expressed in rise in price of municipal and regional special projects, and also in negative dynamics by number of inhabitants in the cities. And, on the contrary, in completely safe on ecology regions birth rate and a standard of living will increase. Ecology won't affect the current expenditure of mayors and governors, the cost of projects only. For control over an ecological situation, mayors will have four new projects.  City program of garbage utilization will allow to lower significantly the level of the environmental problems connected with garbage. Traffic intersection will allow to cut down for 50% transportation expenses of the enterprises in the city (products delivery within this city) and will lower level of the environmental problems connected with motor transport. Treatment facilities will allow to lower significantly the level of environmental problems connected with industrial drains. Environmental monitoring of power plants will allow to lower significantly the level of environmental problems connected with atmospheric emissions from power plants of the city. Thus, the city will refuse to buy the electric power from those power plants of a city power grid, which level of ecological safety is less than value recommended by ecologists.
For control over an ecological situation governors will have two new projects.  Ecological police will allow to lower level of the environmental problems connected with garbage, motor transport and industrial drains, in all cities of the region. However, expenses of the region on ecology will increase for 15%. Besides, all additional subsidies will be directed for ecological needs to municipal budgets of the problematic cities, if those are provided by the regional budget. Environmental monitoring of power plants will allow to lower significantly the level of environmental problems connected with atmospheric emissions from power plants of the region. However, the region will refuse to buy the electric power from those power plants of a regional power grid, which level of ecological safety is less than value recommended by ecologists.
Besides, Governor's Councils of all regions will be added with 50 the voices reserved for owners of power plants of the region. Votes will be distributed in proportion to quantity of the electric power sold in update and adjusted for a share of players in energy distribution (for example, if players produce only 10% of energy consumed by production of the region, then for power engineers 5 voices in Council are allocated only). In addition, daily within the current week (on November 26-29) Coal mines with discounts will be exposed on the market of the state enterprises! The offer is limited! |
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| I am looking forward to seeing the marketplace being established for power.
At the moment, we have a few players turning points into a small amount of cash, no one sane using higher technologies, and a market almost completely dominated by local suppliers. Everyone needs power, they wont stop producing because the cost rises. However, without an independent supplier of coal of a suitable quality there will be no large scale power generation. Flooding the coal market would be disadvantageous to existing coal miners, So that's not going to happen. The current price for power doesn't seem to me, to make it look like, say Gold for point/ million. Ecology is cute, without power prices skyrocketing, or coal per unit energy plummeting, it wont be used.  C |
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