Investigation of Daytime Peak Loads to Improve the Power Generation Costs of Solar-Integrated Power Systems

Figure 5

Hourly power generation costs for the 24 h DEDs of the load profiles (LPs) under (a) 10% average, (b) 30% average, (c) 10% abundant, (d) 30% abundant, (e) 10% scarce, and (f) 30% scarce solar penetration levels and resource conditions.

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