Economic assessment of distributed generation using life cycle costs and environmental externalities

Proceedings of the 37th Annual North American Power Symposium, 2005

Volumn 2005, Issue , 2005, Pages 412-419

  Rivera Rodríguez, Gabriel A ^b   O'Neill Carrillo, Efraín ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Distributed generation; Externalities; Life cycle costs; Monetized emission damages; Outage costs; Reliability; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; LIFE CYCLE; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; LIFE CYCLE COSTS; MONETIZED EMISSION DAMAGES; OUTAGE COSTS;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 33845296920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NAPS.2005.1560578     Document Type: Conference Paper

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