Impact of tidal generation on power system operation in Ireland

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 2034-2040

  Bryans, A Garth ^a,b   Fox, Brendan ^a   Crossley, Peter A ^a   O'Malley, Mark ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Capacity credit; Generator characteristics; Ramp rate; System operations; Tidal generation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; OPTIMIZATION; TIDAL POWER; TURBINES;

CAPACITY CREDIT; GENERATOR CHARACTERISTICS; IRELAND; RAMP RATE; TIDAL GENERATION;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS;

EID: 28244502100     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2005.857282     Document Type: Article

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