Added value of reliability to a microgrid: Simulations of three California buildings

2009 CIGRE / EEE PES Joint Symposium: Integration of Wide-Scale Renewable Resources into the Power Delivery System

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Marnay, Chris ^a   Lai, Judy ^a   Stadler, Michael ^a   Siddiqui, Afzal ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buildings; Cogeneration; Cooling; Dispersed storage and generation; Microgrids; Optimization methods; Power quality; Power system economics; Power system reliability

Indexed keywords

COGENERATION; DISPERSED STORAGE AND GENERATION; MICRO GRID; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; POWER SYSTEM RELIABILITY;

BUILDINGS; CARBON FOOTPRINT; COOLING; DIGITAL STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION; ENERGY RESOURCES; RELIABILITY;

POWER QUALITY;

EID: 84877332849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

1. For more background on microgrids, please see the presentations from the two Symposiums on Microgrids held at Berkeley, CA, USA in June 2005 near Montréal, Canada in June 2006, at Nagoya, Japan, in Apr 2007, and on Kythnos Is., Greece, in June 2008 (available at http://der.lbl.gov).
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