The value of wind resource geographic diversity for wind farm profitability

IEEE Transactions on Power Systems

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 2074-2083

  Gómez Quiles, Catalina ^a   Gil, Hugo A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Geographic diversity; risk; wind farm revenue

Indexed keywords

BIDDING PROCESS; ESTIMATION MODELS; GEOGRAPHIC DIVERSITY; INVESTMENT DECISIONS; LIMITED INFORMATION; OPTIMAL RATE; PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS; REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS; SINGLE SITES; VALUE OF WIND; WIND FARM; WIND RESOURCES;

COMMERCE; COMPETITION; DIGITAL STORAGE; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; INVESTMENTS; PROFITABILITY; RISK PERCEPTION; RISKS;

WIND POWER;

EID: 84867989146     PISSN: 08858950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2195337     Document Type: Article

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