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Effective Load Carrying Capacity of Solar PV Plants: A case study across USA
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Gami, Dhruv N
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461281022
Abstract Details
Year and Degree
2016, Master of Science, Ohio State University, Industrial and Systems Engineering.
Abstract
Evaluating the capacity value of solar PV plants can pose significant challenges due to their dependence on geographic and climatic conditions, which are highly variable and uncertain. Also, the way the data are recorded gives a significant variation in capacity value estimates. In this dissertation, different capacity value metrics are reviewed, several case studies are summarized and capacity value using the Effective Load Carrying Capability (ELCC) metric is estimated for 100 MW PV plants located across North America. ELCC estimates using hourly and minute-based solar data are compared, ELCCs are computed after shifting the load data ahead and behind by one hour to account for the sloppiness in reporting load data, and ELCC estimates using modeled and measured solar data are compared.
Committee
Ramteen Sioshansi, Dr. (Advisor)
Antonio Conejo, Dr. (Committee Member)
Pages
59 p.
Subject Headings
Industrial Engineering
Keywords
Capacity Value
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Effective Load Carrying Capability - ELCC
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Solar PV
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Gami, D. N. (2016).
Effective Load Carrying Capacity of Solar PV Plants: A case study across USA
[Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461281022
APA Style (7th edition)
Gami, Dhruv.
Effective Load Carrying Capacity of Solar PV Plants: A case study across USA.
2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461281022.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Gami, Dhruv. "Effective Load Carrying Capacity of Solar PV Plants: A case study across USA." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1461281022
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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Effective Load Carrying Capacity of Solar PV Plants: A case study across USA by Dhruv N Gami is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Based on a work at etd.ohiolink.edu.
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