Electric utility capacity expansion planning with the option of investing in solar energy

The problem of incorporating non-dispatchable energy sources such as solar energy into electric utility capacity expansion programs is as yet unsolved. This thesis develops methods to incorporate solar energy as a decision variable into capacity planning and capacity expansion planning algorithms. T...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Staschus, Konstantin
Other Authors: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Format: Others
Language:en_US
Published: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/80203