Optimizing geographic allotment of photovoltaic capacity in a distributed generation setting

Progress in Photovoltaics: Research and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1276-1285

  Urquhart, Bryan ^a,b   Sengupta, Manajit ^a   Keller, Jamie ^a  

^a NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distribution; optimization; photovoltaics; solar; variability

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTION; ENERGY GENERATIONS; OPTIMAL ALTERNATIVE; OPTIMAL SOLUTION SETS; PARETO-OPTIMAL SETS; PHOTOVOLTAICS; SOLAR; VARIABILITY;

AGGREGATES; DISTRIBUTED POWER GENERATION; MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84883052567     PISSN: 10627995     EISSN: 1099159X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pip.2334     Document Type: Conference Paper

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