Methodology for ranking customer segments by their suitability for distributed energy resources applications

Energy Conversion and Management

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1615-1623

  Alfonso, D ^a   Perez Navarro A ^a   Encinas, N ^a   Alvarez C ^a   Rodriguez J ^a   Alcazar M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Demand segmentation; Distributed energy resources; Distributed generation; Segment ranking

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ENERGY RESOURCES; ENERGY UTILIZATION; OPTIMIZATION;

DEMAND SEGMENTATION; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; SEGMENT RANKING;

ENERGY MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33947254413     PISSN: 01968904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enconman.2006.11.006     Document Type: Article

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