Benefits and cost implications from integrating small flexible nuclear reactors with off-shore wind farms in a virtual power plant

Energy Policy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 558-573

  Shropshire, David ^a   Purvins, Arturs ^a   Papaioannou, Ioulia ^a   Maschio, Isabella ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Off shore wind farm; Small medium reactor; Virtual power plant

Indexed keywords

BASELOAD POWER PLANT; BENEFITS AND COSTS; CAPACITY UTILIZATION; ENERGY MIX; EUROPEAN UNION; LOW-CARBON; MODULE SIZE; NORTH SEA; NUCLEAR SYSTEMS; OFF-SHORE; POWER VARIABILITY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SMALL MEDIUM REACTOR; SMART GRID; SOURCE OF ENERGY; VIRTUAL POWER PLANTS; WIND DATA; WIND FARM; WIND POWER VARIATIONS; WIND VARIATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; POWER PLANTS; WIND POWER;

SMALL NUCLEAR REACTORS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER; POWER GENERATION; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 84861221134     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2012.04.037     Document Type: Article

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