Estimating Power Generation of Invisible Solar Sites Using Publicly Available Data

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 2456-2465

  Shaker, Hamid ^a   Zareipour, Hamidreza ^a   Wood, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behind The meter solar; fuzzy systems; invisible solar power generation; unsupervised modelling

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; SOLAR CONCENTRATORS;

ELECTRICAL LOAD; LOAD FORECASTING; OPERATION OF POWER SYSTEM; REAL-TIME DATA; SOLAR GENERATION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC GENERATIONS; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; SYSTEM OPERATOR;

SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

EID: 84959922864     PISSN: 19493053     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSG.2016.2533164     Document Type: Article

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