Establishing conditions for the economic viability of fuel cell-based, combined heat and power distributed generation systems

Applied Energy

Volumn 111, Issue , 2013, Pages 904-920

  Pruitt, Kristopher A ^a   Braun, Robert J ^b   Newman, Alexandra M ^b  

^a UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY   (United States)

^b Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon tax; Combined heat and power; Distributed generation; Economic viability; Fuel cell; Mixed integer programming

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COSTS; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEM INTERCONNECTION; FUEL CELLS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TECHNOLOGY;

CARBON TAXES; COMBINED HEAT AND POWER; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED GENERATION TECHNOLOGIES; ECONOMIC VIABILITY; MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING; OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE; TOTAL INSTALLED COSTS;

POWER GENERATION;

BUILDING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FUEL CELL; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPERATIONS TECHNOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; POLLUTION TAX; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT;

CHANDIPURA VIRUS;

EID: 84880608587     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.06.025     Document Type: Article

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