Optimal deployment of thermal energy storage under diverse economic and climate conditions

Applied Energy

Volumn 119, Issue , 2014, Pages 488-496

  DeForest, Nicholas ^a   Mendes, Gonçalo ^a,b   Stadler, Michael ^a,c   Feng, Wei ^a   Lai, Judy ^a   Marnay, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^c Center for Energy and Innovative Technologies   (Austria)

Author keywords

Chilled water storage; Cooling; Distributed energy resources; Net present value; Optimization; Thermal energy storage

Indexed keywords

CHILLED WATER; DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES; ECONOMIC BENEFITS; ELECTRICITY COSTS; ELECTRICITY TARIFF; NET PRESENT VALUE; OPTIMAL DEPLOYMENT; OPTIMIZATION MODELING;

ASSOCIATIVE STORAGE; COOLING; COSTS; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY RESOURCES; HEAT STORAGE; HEURISTIC METHODS; OFFICE BUILDINGS; OPTIMIZATION; THERMAL ENERGY;

COOLING SYSTEMS;

CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COOLING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; THERMAL POWER;

ASIA; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; LISBOA [PORTUGAL]; MIAMI; PORTUGAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84893450781     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2014.01.047     Document Type: Article

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