Large-scale solar PV investment models, tools, and analysis: The Ontario case

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2547-2555

  Muneer, Wajid ^a   Bhattacharya, Kankar ^a   Cañizares, Claudio A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Investment tools; power system planning; renewable energy generation; solar photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

INVESTMENT COSTS; INVESTMENT MODELS; ONTARIO; ONTARIO , CANADA; OPTIMAL PLAN; OPTIMAL SETS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; POWER SYSTEM PLANNING; RADIATION LEVELS; RENEWABLE ENERGY GENERATION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR PVS; TRANSMISSION SYSTEMS;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; PROFITABILITY; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SUN;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 80054900171     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2146796     Document Type: Article

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