GIS-based planning and modeling for renewable energy: Challenges and future research avenues

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 662-692

  Resch, Bernd ^a,b   Sagl, Günther ^a   Trnros, Tobias ^a   Bachmaier, Andreas ^c   Eggers, Jan Bleicke ^c   Herkel, Sebastian ^c   Narmsara, Sattaya ^c   Gündra, Hartmut ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEMS ISE   (Germany)

^d GEOMER GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fluctuating renewables; Future research challenges; GIS and renewable energy; GIS based energy infrastructure planning; Integration of GIS and energy system models; Operation optimization; Structural planning of local energy systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84919822274     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi3020662     Document Type: Review

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