Solar Generation in the US Power Grid: Issues and Opportunities
- Authors: Lukashenko I.V1
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Affiliations:
- Georgy Arbatov Institute for the U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN)
- Issue: No 10 (670) (2025)
- Pages: 96-110
- Section: Ecology
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2686-6730/article/view/351592
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.31857/S2686673025100085
- ID: 351592
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About the authors
I. V Lukashenko
Georgy Arbatov Institute for the U.S. and Canada Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (ISKRAN)
Email: anelal@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-7235-1139
Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Leading Research Fellow Moscow, Russian Federation
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