Modeling California's high-elevation hydropower systems in energy units

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2009, Pages

  Madani, Kaveh ^a   Lund, Jay R ^a  

^a University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CONSERVATION OF ENERGY; ENERGY FLOW; ENERGY PRICES; ENERGY UNITS; HYDROPOWER SYSTEM; MASS FLOW; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; RESERVOIR MODELING; RESERVOIR VOLUME; WATER VOLUMES;

CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECONOMIC ACTIVITY; ENERGY CONSERVATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; POWER GENERATION; PRICE DYNAMICS;

CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 72149121828     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007206     Document Type: Article

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