Modeling the potential for thermal concentrating solar power technologies

Energy Policy

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 7884-7897

  Zhang, Yabei ^a   Smith, Steven J ^b   Kyle, G Page ^b   Stackhouse, Paul W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

CSP; Solar; Thermal storage

Indexed keywords

BASE LOAD GENERATION; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; CSP; CSP TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC MODELING; EVOLUTIONARY PATHWAY; HYBRID PLANTS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; SOLAR; SOLAR RESOURCES; THERMAL STORAGE;

HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

TECHNOLOGY;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION; THERMAL POWER;

EID: 78049420574     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.09.008     Document Type: Article

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