Concentrating renewable energy in grid-tied datacenters

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Symposium on Sustainable Systems and Technology, ISSST 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Deng, Nan ^a   Stewart, Christopher ^a   Li, Jing ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSIONS; DATA CENTERS; FIRST-ORDER; INTERNET SERVICES; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SERVER FARMS; SIMULATION-BASED; SOLAR PANELS;

INTERNET;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 79960734733     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSST.2011.5936855     Document Type: Conference Paper

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