Evaluation of global onshore wind energy potential and generation costs

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 7857-7864

  Zhou, Yuyu ^a   Luckow, Patrick ^a   Smith, Steven J ^a   Clarke, Leon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GENERATION COST; GLOBAL ECONOMICS; GLOBAL ESTIMATE; INPUT PARAMETER; KEY PARAMETERS; LAND SUITABILITY; ONSHORE WINDS; PETAWATT; PHYSICAL SCIENCE; POLICY IMPLICATIONS; REANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION COSTS; TRANSMISSION DISTANCES; WIND FARM; WIND MAPS; WIND POTENTIAL; WIND SPEED; WIND SPEED DATA; WIND TURBINE TECHNOLOGY; WORLD ENERGIES;

ELECTRIC UTILITIES; PUBLIC POLICY; WIND EFFECTS; WIND POWER;

COSTS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY POLICY; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKING; POWER GENERATION; PRODUCTION COST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; WIND POWER; WIND TURBINE; WIND VELOCITY;

ARTICLE; ENERGY COST; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; VELOCITY; WIND POWER;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; ELECTRICITY; GEOGRAPHY; INTERNATIONALITY; POWER PLANTS; WIND;

EID: 84863936046     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es204706m     Document Type: Article

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