Baseload wind energy: modeling the competition between gas turbines and compressed air energy storage for supplemental generation

Energy Policy

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1474-1492

  Greenblatt, Jeffery B ^a   Succar, Samir ^b   Denkenberger, David C ^c   Williams, Robert H ^b   Socolow, Robert H ^d  

^a Environmental Defense   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UCB 450   (United States)

^d Princeton University   (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed air energy storage (CAES); Greenhouse gas emissions; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

COSTS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY STORAGE; GAS TURBINES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL GAS; OPTIMIZATION;

COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE; COST-OPTIMIZATION MODEL; GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSION; NATURAL GAS TURBINES;

WIND POWER;

COMPETITION (ECONOMICS); COMPRESSED AIR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; GREENHOUSE GAS; MODEL; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; TURBINE; WIND POWER;

EID: 33845264801     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2006.03.023     Document Type: Article

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