Wind power projects planning considering real options for the wind resource assessment

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 158-166

  Martinez Cesena, Eduardo Alejandro ^a   Mutale, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Generation planning; real options (ROs); renewable energy; wind resource assessment (WRA)

Indexed keywords

GENERATION PLANNING; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; PLANNING AND DESIGN; REAL OPTIONS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; TECHNIQUES USED; WIND POWER PROJECTS; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WIND RESOURCE ASSESSMENT (WRA);

AVAILABILITY; DESIGN; RATING; WIND POWER;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84859056488     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2011.2164102     Document Type: Article

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