The economics of storage, transmission and drought: Integrating variable wind power into spatially separated electricity grids

Energy Economics

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 536-541

  Scorah, Hugh ^a   Sopinka, Amy ^a   van Kooten, G Cornelis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Carbon costs; Electrical grids; Mathematical programming; Wind power

Indexed keywords

ALBERTA; BRITISH COLUMBIA; ELECTRICAL GRIDS; ELECTRICITY GRIDS; EMISSION REDUCTION; GRID INTEGRATION; HIGH TRANSMISSION; HIGH VARIABILITY; LOAD CENTERS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODELS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SHEDDING LIGHT; STORAGE SITES; THERMAL GENERATION; TRANSMISSION CAPACITIES; TRANSMISSION LINK; WIND CAPACITY; WIND FARM;

CARBON DIOXIDE; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COST REDUCTION; DROUGHT; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; FOSSIL FUELS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; SEPARATION; WIND POWER;

ECONOMICS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; DROUGHT; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; FOSSIL FUEL; NUMERICAL METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

ALBERTA; CANADA;

EID: 84857367789     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2011.10.021     Document Type: Article

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