New approach for optimal electricity planning and dispatching with hourly time-scale air quality and health considerations

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

Volumn 112, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 10884-10889

  Kerl, Paul Y ^a   Zhang, Wenxian ^b,e   Moreno Cruz, Juan B ^b   Nenes, Athanasios ^a,b,c,d   Realff, Matthew J ^a   Russell, Armistead G ^a   Sokol, Joel ^a   Thomas, Valerie M ^a,b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e TRINITY CONSULTANTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Air pollution; Electricity generation; Energy policy; Externalities; Health impacts

Indexed keywords

AIR POLLUTANT; AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; COMBUSTION; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRICITY; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; ANALYSIS; GEORGIA; HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; TOXICITY;

AIR POLLUTANT;

AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ELECTRICITY; GEORGIA; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PLANNING TECHNIQUES; POWER PLANTS;

EID: 84940982510     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1413143112     Document Type: Article

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