One major avenue for policymakers to meet climate targets is by decarbonizing the power
sector, one component of which is raising the share of renewable energy sources …

This article reviews power system flexibility assessment, which is necessary to ensure both
instantaneous stability and long-term security of supply under high penetrations of variable …

Electrical energy storage (EES) is a promising flexibility source for prospective low-carbon
energy systems. In the last couple of years, many studies for EES capacity planning have …

Test systems are important tools and benchmark for power system research. Currently, there
is a lack of standard test systems for modern transmission expansion planning (TEP) …

Photovoltaics (PV) has recently undergone impressive growth and substantial cost
decreases, while deployment for concentrating solar power (CSP) has been much slower …

The marginal levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for increasing the share of Variable
Renewable Energy (VRE) is estimated using the electricity investment model greenVRE …

This work presents a novel approach to improving the load flexibility of coal-fired power
plant by integrating high temperature thermal energy storage (HTTES) through additional …

The solar absorptance of a thermal receiver surface significantly affects the photothermal
conversion efficiency of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. The development of low …

Studies focusing on 100% renewable energy systems have emerged in recent years;
however, existing studies tend to focus only on the power sector using exploratory …

Estimates of the land area occupied by wind energy differ by orders of magnitude due to
data scarcity and inconsistent methodology. We developed a method that combines …