Reliability and economic evaluation of small autonomous power systems containing only renewable energy sources

Renewable Energy

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 65-70

  Georgilakis, Pavlos S ^a   Katsigiannis, Yiannis A ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Autonomous power systems; Reliability cost; Reliability worth; Renewable energy sources; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NATURAL RESOURCES; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

AUTONOMOUS POWER SYSTEM; DETERMINISTIC CRITERION; OPTIMAL SYSTEM CONFIGURATION; RELIABILITY COSTS; RELIABILITY PERFORMANCE; RELIABILITY WORTH; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; TIME-CONSUMING TASKS;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENERGY RESOURCE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 51649114715     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2008.03.004     Document Type: Article

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