Conditions and costs for renewables electricity grid connection: Examples in Europe

Renewable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1832-1842

  Swider, Derk J ^a   Beurskens, Luuk ^b   Davidson, Sarah ^c   Twidell, John ^c,d   Pyrko, Jurek ^e   Prüggler, Wolfgang ^f   Auer, Hans ^f   Vertin, Katarina ^g   Skema, Romualdas ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c IT Power ^*  (United Kingdom)

^d AMSET Centre   (United Kingdom)

^e LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^g Energy Restructuring Agency   (Slovenia)

^h LITHUANIAN ENERGY INSTITUTE   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Case studies; Costs; Embedded generation; Europe; Grid connection; Renewable electricity

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY POLICY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

EMBEDDED GENERATION; GRID CONNECTION; RENEWABLE ELECTRICITY;

DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION;

BIOMASS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ENERGY POLICY; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY POLICY; INSTALLATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POLICY MAKING; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STAKEHOLDER; WIND POWER;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 41849131022     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2007.11.005     Document Type: Article

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