Using diurnal power price to configure pumped storage

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 804-809

  Figueiredo, F Cristina ^a,b   Flynn, Peter C ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (Canada)

^b STANTEC CONSULTING LTD   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Power generation; Power industry; Power system economics; Pumped storage power generation

Indexed keywords

POWER INDUSTRY; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; PUMPED STORAGE POWER GENERATION; RETURN ON INVESTMENTS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; INVESTMENTS; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 33947402659     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2006.877373     Document Type: Article

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