Toward a Solar-Powered Grid

Greg Brinkman; Paul Denholm; Easan Drury; Robert Margolis; Matthew Mowers

doi:10.1109/MPE.2011.940574

Toward a Solar-Powered Grid

Greg Brinkman, Paul Denholm, Easan Drury, Robert Margolis, Matthew Mowers

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

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Abstract

Recent growth in the use of solar electricity generation technologies has prompted increased scrutiny of the operational benefits and impacts of these variable generation sources. Like wind, the solar resource is both variable and uncertain. This presents challenges for maintaining system reliability at low cost, similar to those associated with the deployment of wind.

Original language	American English
Article number	5753324
Pages (from-to)	24-32
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Power and Energy Magazine
Volume	9
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MPE.2011.940574 https://doi.org/10.1109/MPE.2011.940574
State	Published - 2011

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NREL/JA-6A20-50319

Keywords

opeational benefits and impacts
solar deployment
thermal energy storage

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