Effects of variable renewable power on a country-scale electricity system: High penetration of hydro power plants and wind farms in electricity generation

Energy

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 225-236

  Purvins, Arturs ^a   Papaioannou, Ioulia T ^a   Oleinikova, Irina ^b   Tzimas, Evangelos ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL ENERGETICS   (Latvia)

Author keywords

Electricity system; Hydro power plant; Renewable energy sources; Transmission grid; Wind farm

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; ELECTRICITY; HYDROELECTRIC POWER; PROBABILITY; WIND POWER;

ELECTRICITY SYSTEM; HYDROPOWER PLANTS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; TRANSMISSION GRIDS; WIND FARM;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEASONAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WIND FARM; WIND POWER;

EID: 84861766209     PISSN: 03605442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2012.04.038     Document Type: Article

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