Utility scale PV plant variability and energy storage for ramp rate control

Conference Record of the IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 973-979

  Van Haaren, Rob ^a,b   Morjaria, Mahesh ^b   Fthenakis, Vasilis ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b FIRST SOLAR   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy storage; PV plant variability; Ramp rate control

Indexed keywords

ENERGY RESOURCES;

CONVENTIONAL GENERATORS; INSTALLED CAPACITY; POWER OUT PUT; PV PLANTS; RAMP RATES; RAMPING COSTS;

ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 84896449720     PISSN: 01608371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2013.6744304     Document Type: Conference Paper

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