Assessment of imbalance settlement exemptions for offshore wind power generation in Belgium

Energy Policy

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1486-1494

  De Vos, Kristof ^a   Driesen, Johan ^a   Belmans, Ronnie ^a  

^a Department Esat Electa ^*  (Belgium)

Author keywords

Balancing market; RES E integration; Wind power

Indexed keywords

BALANCING MARKET; BELGIUM; FINANCIAL EFFECTS; OFFSHORE DEVELOPMENT; OFFSHORE LOCATIONS; OFFSHORE WIND POWER; OFFSHORE WIND POWER GENERATION; POWER OUT PUT; PREDICTION ERRORS; RENEWABLES; RES-E INTEGRATION; SUPPORT MECHANISM; WIND POWER GENERATORS; WIND RESOURCES;

COMMERCE; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

WIND POWER;

ENERGY MARKET; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCE; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; POWER GENERATION; REGULATORY FRAMEWORK; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND POWER;

BELGIUM;

EID: 79952071385     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2010.12.022     Document Type: Article

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