The capacity value of solar generation in the Western United States

IEEE Power and Energy Society General Meeting

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Madaeni, Seyed Hossein ^a   Sioshansi, Ramteen ^a   Denholm, Paul ^b  

^a The Ohio State University   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity value; concentrating solar power; equivalent conventional power; photovoltaic solar

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY VALUE; CONCENTRATING SOLAR POWER; CONVENTIONAL POWER; PHOTOVOLTAIC; SOLAR GENERATION; SOLAR PLANT; SOLAR TECHNOLOGY; WESTERN UNITED STATES;

SOLAR ENERGY; SOLAR POWER PLANTS;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84870595230     PISSN: 19449925     EISSN: 19449933     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PESGM.2012.6345521     Document Type: Conference Paper

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