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IEEE Power and Energy Magazine

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 33-44

  Trueblood, Chris ^a   Coley, Steven ^a   Key, Tom ^a   Rogers, Lindsey ^a   Ellis, Abraham ^b   Hansen, Cliff ^b   Philpot, Elizabeth ^c  

^a EPRI Solutions Inc   (United States)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c ALABAMA POWER COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVENTIONAL POWER PLANTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; PLANT PERFORMANCE; PV PLANTS; WIND AND SOLAR POWER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84874604389     PISSN: 15407977     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MPE.2012.2234405     Document Type: Article

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