Solar electricity supply isolines of generation capacity and storage

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 3663-3668

  Grossmann, Wolf ^a,b   Grossmann, Iris ^c   Steininger, Karl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispatchable solar electricity; Large scale solar network; Photovoltaics; Solar intermittency; US super grid

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY COST; POWER SUPPLY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLAR ELECTRICITY; STORAGE; SUNLIGHT; TIME;

EID: 84925397445     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1316781112     Document Type: Article

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