Estimating the capacity value of concentrating solar power plants: A case study of the southwestern United States

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1116-1124

  Madaeni, Seyed Hossein ^a   Sioshansi, Ramteen ^a   Denholm, Paul ^b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity value; concentrating solar power; equivalent conventional power

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY VALUE; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER PLANT; CONVENTIONAL POWER;

HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

ESTIMATION;

EID: 84860260446     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2011.2179071     Document Type: Article

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