Decarbonizing the electric sector: Combining renewable and nuclear energy using thermal storage

Energy Policy

Volumn 44, Issue , 2012, Pages 301-311

  Denholm, Paul ^a   King, Jeffrey C ^b   Kutcher, Charles F ^a   Wilson, Paul P H ^c  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering   (United States)

^c Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy storage; Nuclear power; Renewable energy

Indexed keywords

BASE-LOAD POWER; CAPACITY FACTORS; CONSTANT POWER; CYCLING DUTY; ECONOMIC COMPETITIVENESS; ECONOMIC LIMIT; ELECTRICAL GENERATORS; ENERGY OUTPUT; LOAD-FOLLOWING; POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS; REACTOR POWER; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TECHNICAL CHALLENGES; THERMAL STORAGE;

COMPETITION; ENERGY STORAGE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

HEAT STORAGE;

COMPETITIVENESS; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; ELECTRICITY INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER; NUCLEAR POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; WIND POWER;

EID: 84858294149     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.01.055     Document Type: Article

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