Sivaraman, Deepak; Keoleian, Gregory A. - In: Energy Policy 38 (2010) 10, pp. 5708-5718
Photovoltaic electricity has the potential to mitigate CO2 emissions from the grid. A methodology to more accurately evaluate CO2 abatement by PV electricity is developed. We develop a capacity factor based dispatching model to evaluate marginal abatement in the load zones of ERCOT and CAISO,...