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Hybrid renewable energy systems (HRES) should be designed appropriately with an adequate combination of different renewable sources and various energy storage methods to overcome the problem of intermittency of renewable energy resources. A multi-criteria approach is proposed in this study to...
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This paper introduces a new proposed design and optimization simulation program for the techno-economic sizing of a stand-alone hybrid photovoltaic/wind/diesel/ battery energy system using the iterative optimization. The main function of the new proposed simulation program is to determine the...
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- US Distributed Wind Market Hits Turbulence. Tincher, Sarah // State Journal (WV);9/4/2015, Vol. 31 Issue 35, p9
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