Implications of Wide-Area Geographic Diversity for Short- Term Variability of Solar Power

LBNL-3884E E RNEST O RLANDO L AWRENCE B ERKELEY N ATIONAL L ABORATORY Implications of Wide-Area Geographic Diversity for Short- Term Variability of Solar Power Andrew Mills and Ryan Wiser Environmental Energy Technologies Division September 2010 Download from http://eetd.lbl.gov/EA/EMP The work described in this paper was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy and Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability) under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231.

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