Assessing the economic benefits of compressed air energy storage for mitigating wind curtailment

IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1021-1028

  Cleary, Brendan ^a   Duffy, Aidan ^a   O'Connor, Alan ^b   Conlon, Michael ^a   Fthenakis, Vasilis ^c  

^a DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Ireland)

^b TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Compressed air energy storage (CAES); energy markets; PLEXOS; power system economics; power system modeling; power system operation; revenue; total generation costs; wind curtailment; wind power

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSED AIR; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; EARNINGS; ECONOMICS; ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ENERGY STORAGE; POWER MARKETS; PRESSURE VESSELS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; WIND POWER;

COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGES (CAES); ENERGY MARKETS; GENERATION COST; PLEXOS; POWER SYSTEM ECONOMICS; POWER SYSTEM MODEL; POWER SYSTEM OPERATIONS;

COMPRESSED AIR ENERGY STORAGE;

EID: 85027930423     PISSN: 19493029     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSTE.2014.2376698     Document Type: Article

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