Economic Modeling of Hybrid Renewable Energy System: A Case Study in Saudi Arabia

Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 3827-3839

  Eltamaly, Ali M ^a   Addoweesh, Khaled E ^a   Bawa, Umar ^a   Mohamed, Mohamed A ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Cost of energy; Hybrid PV wind battery energy system design; Matching between site and hybrid renewable energy system; New software for hybrid renewable energy system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899659144     PISSN: 2193567X     EISSN: 21914281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13369-014-0945-6     Document Type: Article

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