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Author Denholm, P. (Paul)

Title Very large-scale deployment of grid-connected solar photovoltaics in the United States : challenges and opportunities : preprint / P. Denholm and R. Margolis.

Imprint Golden, CO : National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 2006.

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 Axe Federal Documents Online  E 9.17:NREL/CP-620-39683    ---  Available
Description 5 pages : digital, PDF file.
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Series NREL/CP ; 620-39683
Conference paper (National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)) ; NREL/CP-620-39683.
System Details Mode of access: Internet from the NREL web site. Address as of 8/27/07: http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy06osti/39683.pdf; current access available via PURL.
Note "To be presented at Solar 2006, Denver, Colorado, July 8-13, 2006."
Title from title screen (viewed on Aug. 27, 2007).
"April 2006."
Summary This paper analyzes the potential for solar photovoltaics (PV) to be deployed on a very large scale and provide a large fraction of a system's electricity. It explicitly examines how the hourly availability of PV interacts with the limited flexibility of traditional electricity generation plants. The authors found that, under high penetration levels and existing grid-operation procedures and rules, the system will have excess PV generation during certain periods of the year. This excess PV generation results in increased costs, which can increase dramatically when PV provides on the order of 10%-15% of total electricity demand in systems that are heavily dependent on inflexible baseload steam plants. Measures to increase penetration of PV are also discussed, including increased system flexibility, increased dispatchable load, and energy storage.
Subject Photovoltaic power generation -- United States.
Photovoltaic power generation. (OCoLC)fst01062167
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Margolis, Robert M. (Robert Mark)
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (U.S.)
Gpo Item No. 0430-P-04 (online)
Sudoc No. E 9.17:NREL/CP-620-39683

 
    
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