Design and simulation of a PV and a PV-Wind standalone energy system to power a household application

Renewable Energy

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 355-363

  Panayiotou, Gregoris ^a,b   Kalogirou, Soteris ^a   Tassou, Savvas ^b  

^a CYPRUS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Cyprus)

^b BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Baseline scenario; Hybrid; Load profile; Solar potential; Standalone; Wind potential

Indexed keywords

BASELINE SCENARIO; HYBRID; LOAD PROFILE; SOLAR POTENTIAL; STANDALONE; WIND POTENTIAL;

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYBRID SYSTEMS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

DESIGN; ENERGY RESOURCE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOFTWARE; SOLAR RADIATION; WIND POWER;

ALPES MARITIMES; CYPRUS; FRANCE; NICE; NICOSIA [CYPRUS]; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR;

EID: 79961126767     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2011.06.038     Document Type: Article

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