Potential for concentrating solar power to provide baseload and dispatchable power

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 689-692

  Pfenninger, Stefan ^a   Gauché, Paul ^b   Lilliestam, Johan ^c   Damerau, Kerstin ^c   Wagner, Fabian ^d   Patt, Anthony ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS   (Austria)

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EID: 84905390637     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2276     Document Type: Article

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