Due to its complicated market mechanisms, conventional economic metrics such as Levelised Cost of Electricity may not be able to accurately represent the economic performance of nuclear fusion power plants on deregulated electricity markets. For this reason, this paper quantitatively analyzes the economic performance of steady-state fusion power plants on deregulated electricity markets for the first time with a newly constructed Simplified PJM Market Model. PJM is a successful regional transmission organization in the United States with approximately 180 GW of generating capacity. The results show that the economic performance of fusion power plant has higher sensitivity to the frequency of unplanned outages (including ones from plasma disruptions) on deregulated electricity markets. It is also indicated that the energy storage for plasma startups could be monetized through deregulated market mechanisms, which could turn into a unique advantage of future nuclear fusion power plants. The paper presents a case-study on a vital new area for the economic assessment of fusion power plant: the economic performance on the deregulated electricity market.

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聚变发电厂在放松管制的电力市场上的经济表现

由于其复杂的市场机制，诸如电力平准化成本之类的传统经济指标可能无法准确反映核聚变电厂在放松管制的电力市场上的经济表现。为此，本文首次使用新构建的简化 PJM 市场模型定量分析了稳态聚变电站在放松管制的电力市场上的经济表现。PJM 是美国成功的区域性输电组织，拥有约 180 GW 的发电量。结果表明，聚变发电厂的经济表现对放松管制的电力市场上的计划外停电（包括等离子中断造成的停电）频率具有更高的敏感性。还表明，等离子体初创公司的储能可以通过放松管制的市场机制货币化，这可能会成为未来核聚变电站的独特优势。本文对聚变发电厂经济评估的一个重要新领域进行了案例研究：放松管制的电力市场上的经济表现。