Effect of residential solar and storage on centralized electricity supply systems

Nature Climate Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 315-318

  Agnew, Scott ^a   Dargusch, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICITY GENERATION; EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; RESIDENTIAL ENERGY; SOLAR POWER;

EID: 84925807197     PISSN: 1758678X     EISSN: 17586798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nclimate2523     Document Type: Review

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