Critical time windows for renewable resource complementarity assessment
This paper proposes a framework to assess the complementarity between geographically dispersed variable renewable energy resources over arbitrary time scales. More precisely, the framework relies on the concept of critical time windows, which offers an accurate time-domain description of low probabi...
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ftrepec:oai:RePEc:eee:energy:v:198:y:2020:i:c:s0360544220304151 2024-04-14T08:12:31+00:00 Critical time windows for renewable resource complementarity assessment Berger, Mathias Radu, David Fonteneau, Raphaël Henry, Robin Glavic, Mevludin Fettweis, Xavier Le Du, Marc Panciatici, Patrick Balea, Lucian Ernst, Damien http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544220304151 unknown http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360544220304151 article ftrepec 2024-03-19T10:33:37Z This paper proposes a framework to assess the complementarity between geographically dispersed variable renewable energy resources over arbitrary time scales. More precisely, the framework relies on the concept of critical time windows, which offers an accurate time-domain description of low probability power production events impacting power system operation and planning. A scalar criticality indicator is derived to quantify the spatiotemporal complementarity that renewable generation sites may exhibit, and it is leveraged to propose optimisation models seeking to identify deployment patterns with maximum complementarity. The usefulness of the framework is shown in a case study investigating the complementarity between wind regimes in continental western Europe and southern Greenland, using roughly 300 candidate locations and 10 years of reanalysis and simulated data with hourly resolution. Besides showing that the occurrence of low wind power production events can be reduced on a regional scale by exploiting diversity in local wind patterns, results highlight the fact that aggregating wind power production sites located on different continents may result in a lower occurrence of system-wide low wind power production events and point to potential benefits of intercontinental electricity interconnections. Variable renewable energy; Smoothing effect; Resource complementarity; Critical time windows; Criticality indicator; Power system planning; Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) Greenland |
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This paper proposes a framework to assess the complementarity between geographically dispersed variable renewable energy resources over arbitrary time scales. More precisely, the framework relies on the concept of critical time windows, which offers an accurate time-domain description of low probability power production events impacting power system operation and planning. A scalar criticality indicator is derived to quantify the spatiotemporal complementarity that renewable generation sites may exhibit, and it is leveraged to propose optimisation models seeking to identify deployment patterns with maximum complementarity. The usefulness of the framework is shown in a case study investigating the complementarity between wind regimes in continental western Europe and southern Greenland, using roughly 300 candidate locations and 10 years of reanalysis and simulated data with hourly resolution. Besides showing that the occurrence of low wind power production events can be reduced on a regional scale by exploiting diversity in local wind patterns, results highlight the fact that aggregating wind power production sites located on different continents may result in a lower occurrence of system-wide low wind power production events and point to potential benefits of intercontinental electricity interconnections. Variable renewable energy; Smoothing effect; Resource complementarity; Critical time windows; Criticality indicator; Power system planning; |
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Berger, Mathias Radu, David Fonteneau, Raphaël Henry, Robin Glavic, Mevludin Fettweis, Xavier Le Du, Marc Panciatici, Patrick Balea, Lucian Ernst, Damien |
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Berger, Mathias Radu, David Fonteneau, Raphaël Henry, Robin Glavic, Mevludin Fettweis, Xavier Le Du, Marc Panciatici, Patrick Balea, Lucian Ernst, Damien Critical time windows for renewable resource complementarity assessment |
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Berger, Mathias Radu, David Fonteneau, Raphaël Henry, Robin Glavic, Mevludin Fettweis, Xavier Le Du, Marc Panciatici, Patrick Balea, Lucian Ernst, Damien |
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Critical time windows for renewable resource complementarity assessment |
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