Solar energy in the Northwest U.S

Zia A. Yamayee

Energy, 1985, vol. 10, issue 10, 1159-1164

Abstract: The Power Act created the Pacific Northwest Power Planning Council. The Council is required to draw a 20 yr energy plan and to look into alternative resources in the following order: conservation, renewable resources, cogeneration and conventional technologies. To help the Council evaluate impacts of alternative actions, a generation system simulation model (SAM) was developed. This model evaluates the cost and reliability impacts of a given load/resource scenario, employing a Monte-Carlo approach to deal with uncertainties. We present a brief description of SAM, availability of solar energy resource in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), results of a 100 MW hypothetical central station photovoltaic installation performance, and a central station photovoltaic model.

Date: 1985
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DOI: 10.1016/0360-5442(85)90031-3

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