Distributed solar electricity generation across large geographic areas, Part I: A method to optimize site selection, generation and storage

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

Volumn 25, Issue , 2013, Pages 831-843

  Grossmann, Wolf D ^a,b   Grossmann, Iris ^c   Steininger, Karl W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Desertec; High voltage direct current; Intermittency; Large scale solar energy network; Photovoltaics and concentrating solar power; Renewable energy storage

Indexed keywords

EID: 85027929816     PISSN: 13640321     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2012.08.018     Document Type: Review

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