Impacts of long-timescale variability in solar resources at high PV penetrations: Quantification

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 2481-2486

  Perez, Marc J R ^c   Fthenakis, Vasilis ^a,b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Energy Storage; Power System Reliability; Solar Energy

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIGITAL STORAGE; ENERGY STORAGE; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR RADIATION;

INTERMITTENCY; LOAD FOLLOWING; POWER SYSTEMS RELIABILITY; REGULATION MARKETS; SOLAR ELECTRICITY; SOLAR GENERATION; SOLAR RESOURCES; TIME AVERAGING; TIME-SCALES; UNIT COMMITMENT;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 84869470520     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2012.6318098     Document Type: Conference Paper

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