Endogenous Assessment of the Capacity Value of Solar PV in Generation Investment Planning Studies

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1574-1585

  Munoz, Francisco D ^a,b   Mills, Andrew D ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD ADOLFO IBÁÑEZ   (Chile)

^b SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation techniques; capacity value; generation planning; installed reserve margin; solar

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES;

CAPACITY PLANNING; CONVENTIONAL GENERATION; DECISION VARIABLES; GENERATION INVESTMENT; GENERATOR CAPACITY; INSTALLED CAPACITY; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; PENETRATION LEVEL;

INVESTMENTS;

EID: 84960310571     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2015.2456019     Document Type: Article

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