WREF 2012: Power tower reference plant for cost modeling with the system advisor model (SAM)

World Renewable Energy Forum, WREF 2012, Including World Renewable Energy Congress XII and Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) Annual Conferen

Volumn 4, Issue , 2012, Pages 2598-2605

  Turchi, Craig S ^a   Wagner, Michael J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALIFORNIA; CAPITAL AND OPERATING COSTS; COMPONENT COSTS; COST MODELING; COST MODELS; LABOR RATE; NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY; NITRATE SALTS; PARABOLIC TROUGH; PARABOLIC TROUGH POWER PLANTS; SANDIA NATIONAL LABS; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; THERMAL STORAGE; TOWER TECHNOLOGY; TWO-TANK SYSTEMS;

HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; SPREADSHEETS; TOWERS; WAGES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84871602857     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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