The development of a system dynamics model to evaluate electricity generation expansion in New Zealand

AUPEC 2010 - 20th Australasian Universities Power Engineering Conference: "Power Quality for the 21st Century"

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jalal, Thahirah Syed ^a   Bodger, Pat ^b  

^a Universiti Tenaga Nasional   (Malaysia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capacity cycles; Generation expansion planning; Policy evaluation; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

BOOM AND BUST CYCLES; CAPACITY CYCLES; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; GENERATION CAPACITY; GENERATION EXPANSION; GENERATION EXPANSION PLANNING; MARKET STRUCTURES; NEW ZEALAND; POLICY EVALUATION; SIMILAR PATTERN; SYSTEM DYNAMICS; SYSTEM DYNAMICS MODEL;

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; ELECTRICITY; EXPANSION; SYSTEM THEORY;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 79952346176     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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