Energy payback for energy systems ensembles during growth

Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Gutowski, Timothy G ^a   Gershwin, Stanley B ^a   Bounassis, Tonio ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy breakeven; Energy ensemble performance; Energy growth; Energy payback; EROI

Indexed keywords

CRITICAL GROWTH; DYNAMIC PERFORMANCE; ENERGY GROWTH; ENERGY PAYBACK; ENERGY SYSTEMS; ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE; NET ENERGY; RETURN ON INVESTMENTS; SYSTEM PERFORMANCE INDICATORS;

BENCHMARKING; PROFITABILITY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 77955103686     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2010.5507729     Document Type: Conference Paper

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