Assessment of capacity factor and dispatch flexibility of concentrated solar power units

2013 IEEE Grenoble Conference PowerTech, POWERTECH 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Dallmer Zerbe, Kilian ^a,b   Bucher, Matthias A ^b   Ulbig, Andreas ^b   Andersson, Goran ^b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

capacity factor; CSP; dispatch flexibility; Power Node

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY FACTORS; CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER; CSP; DISPATCH FLEXIBILITY; GENERATION CAPACITY; GRID INTEGRATION OF RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES; PLANT CAPACITY FACTORS; POWER NODES;

HEAT STORAGE; SOLAR ENERGY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84890885378     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PTC.2013.6652252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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