Economical design of utility-scale photovoltaic power plants with optimum availability

IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 3399-3406

  Moradi Shahrbabak, Zahra ^a   Tabesh, Ahmadreza ^a   Yousefi, Gholam Reza ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Levelized cost of energy (LCOE); photovoltaic (PV) power plants; power system availability; PV energy system reliability; PV plant topology design; technoeconomical analysis

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; AVAILABILITY; COSTS; DESIGN; INVESTMENTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS; POWER PLANTS; TOPOLOGY;

LEVELIZED COSTS; PHOTOVOLTAIC; POWER SYSTEM AVAILABILITY; PV ENERGY; TECHNOECONOMICAL ANALYSIS; TOPOLOGY DESIGN;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894168226     PISSN: 02780046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIE.2013.2278525     Document Type: Article

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