Unit commitment with dynamic cycling costs

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2196-2205

  Troy, Niamh ^a   Flynn, Damian ^a   Milligan, Michael ^b   O'Malley, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Power system modeling; thermal power generation

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY SECTOR; POWER SYSTEM MODELING; RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCE; SYSTEM COSTS; SYSTEM OPERATOR; TEST SYSTEMS; THERMAL PLANTS; THERMAL POWER GENERATION;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

COST REDUCTION;

EID: 84867985626     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2192141     Document Type: Article

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