The economic benefit of short-term forecasting for wind energy in the UK electricity market

Energy Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1687-1696

  Barthelmie, R J ^a,b   Murray, F ^a   Pryor, S C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Power production; Wind energy

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRIC POWER DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; FORECASTING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS;

ELECTRICITY MARKET; POWER PRODUCTION; SHORT-TERM FORECASTING; WIND FARM;

WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY; FORECASTING METHOD; PRICE DETERMINATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 40949159664     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.01.027     Document Type: Article

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