Optimizing Your Options: Extracting the Full Economic Value of Transmission When Planning Under Uncertainty

Electricity Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 26-38

  Munoz, Francisco D ^a   Watson, Jean Paul ^b   Hobbs, Benjamin F ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ   (Chile)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c Johns Hopkins University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS; ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

COST-EFFECTIVE INVESTMENT; ECONOMIC POLICIES; ECONOMIC TECHNOLOGY; ECONOMIC VALUES; OPTIMIZATION TOOLS; PLANNING UNDER UNCERTAINTY; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS; STATE OF THE ART; TRANSMISSION EXPANSION; UNCERTAINTY;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84931570501     PISSN: 10406190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tej.2015.05.002     Document Type: Article

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