Harnessing and Integrating Africa's Renewable Energy Resources

Renewable Energy Integration: Practical Management of Variability, Uncertainty, and Flexibility in Power Grids

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 27-38

  Onyeji, Ijeoma ^a  

^a New Energy Insights   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy Policy; Energy Poverty; Power Sector; Regional Integration; Renewable Energy; Rural Electrification; Sub Saharan Africa

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; ENERGY POLICY; ENERGY RESOURCES; POPULATION STATISTICS; RURAL AREAS;

ENERGY POVERTIES; POWER SECTOR; REGIONAL INTEGRATION; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; RURAL ELECTRIFICATION; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

EID: 84935021554     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407910-6.00003-X     Document Type: Chapter

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