The potential impact of climate change on European renewable energy droughts

J Kapica, J Jurasz, FA Canales, H Bloomfield… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
The daily, seasonal, and interannual variability of solar and wind resources is well-
documented, based on evidence from multi-decadal meteorological time series. However …

Critical review of renewable generation datasets and their implications for European power system models

A Kies, BU Schyska, M Bilousova, O El Sayed… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
In the process of decarbonization, the global energy mix is shifting from fossil fuels to
renewables. To study decarbonization pathways, large-scale energy system models are …

Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability

O Ruhnau, S Qvist - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
In the context of 100% renewable electricity systems, prolonged periods with persistently
scarce supply from wind and solar resources have received increasing academic and …

Projecting the competition between energy-storage technologies in the electricity sector

M Beuse, B Steffen, TS Schmidt - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Low-cost electricity-storage technologies (ESTs) enable rapid decarbonization of energy
systems. However, current EST cost estimates lack meaningful models to assess alternative …

[HTML][HTML] Probabilistic modeling of future electricity systems with high renewable energy penetration using machine learning

MJ Mayer, B Biró, B Szücs, A Aszódi - Applied Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing penetration of weather-dependent renewable energy generation calls for
high-resolution modeling of the possible future energy mixes to support the energy strategy …

Wind and solar resource droughts in California highlight the benefits of long-term storage and integration with the western interconnect

KZ Rinaldi, JA Dowling, TH Ruggles… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
As reliance on wind and solar power for electricity generation increases, so does the
importance of understanding how variability in these resources affects the feasible, cost …

The role of wind-solar hybrid plants in mitigating renewable energy-droughts

A Gangopadhyay, AK Seshadri, NJ Sparks, R Toumi - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the share of weather-dependent renewables in the electricity grid is essential to
deeply decarbonize the electricity system. Wind and solar “droughts” or low generation days …

The increasing risk of energy droughts for hydropower in the Yangtze River basin

X Liu, X Yuan, F Ma, J **a - Journal of Hydrology, 2023 - Elsevier
To achieve carbon neutrality and the United Nations' sustainable development goals, the
energy system is transitioning to renewable energy. Hydropower is one of the main forms of …

Implications of a Paris-proof scenario for future supply of weather-dependent variable renewable energy in Europe

J Hu, V Koning, T Bosshard, R Harmsen… - Advances in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract To meet the European Union's 2050 climate neutrality target, future electricity
generation is expected to largely rely on variable renewable energy (VRE). VRE supply …

Designing off-grid renewable energy systems for reliable and resilient operation under stochastic power supply outages

MS Javed, J Jurasz, TH Ruggles, I Khan… - Energy Conversion and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The power supply from solar and wind generators is not only inherently variable but also
prone to failure due to rare-weather related events, ie, hailstorms, icing. Current system …