Flexible heat load for managing wind variability in the Irish power system

Proceedings of the Universities Power Engineering Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Akmal, Muhammad ^a   Flynn, Damian ^b   Kennedy, Jason ^a   Fox, Brendan ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Demand side management; Heat pumps; Power system operation; Space and water heating; Wind variability

Indexed keywords

DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENTS; HEAT PUMPS; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS; SPACE AND WATER HEATING; WATER HEATING;

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; HEATING; HEATING EQUIPMENT; OPERATING COSTS; THERMAL LOAD;

PUMPS;

EID: 77951752514     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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