Economic and technical challenges of flexible operations under large-scale variable renewable deployment
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2017.04.012
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Keywords
Renewable integration; Variable renewable energy; Power system planning; Flexible operations; Regional heterogeneity; Unit-commitment modeling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- L94 - Industrial Organization - - Industry Studies: Transportation and Utilities - - - Electric Utilities
- Q42 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Alternative Energy Sources
- Q48 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Energy - - - Government Policy
- Q20 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - General
- F18 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade and Environment
- C61 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Optimization Techniques; Programming Models; Dynamic Analysis
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