Sizing and cost estimation methodology for stand-alone residential PV power system

International Journal of Agile Systems and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 21-40

  Chel, Arvind ^a   Tiwari, G N ^a   Chandra, Avinash ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

Author keywords

Carbon credits; LCC; Mitigation of CO2 emissions; Photovoltaic; PV; SAPV; Stand alone photovoltaic

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000133781     PISSN: 17419174     EISSN: 17419182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJASM.2009.023245     Document Type: Article

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