Solar electricity supply isolines of generation capacity and storage

Grossmann, Wolf Dieter; Grossmann, Iris; Steininger, Karl W.

doi:10.1073/pnas.1316781112

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“…The recent sharp drop in the cost of generating electricity using PV has triggered an increasing global demand and rapid investment in PV power plants (Grossmann et al, 2015) regardless of the intermittence and seasonal variability of solar energy which appears to be the main obstacle impeding its dependability.…”

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“…Several research studies have been done on photovoltaic in many countries owing to its electricity technology, which has become the fastest growing electricity technology (Grossmann et al, 2015) within the last few decades. Harder and Gibson (2011) studied the cost and benefits (financial feasibility) of large-scale solar PV power production in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates using RETScreen modeling software to predict energy production and greenhouse gas emissions reductions.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The potential and economic viability of solar photovoltaic power in Ghana

Sarkodıe

Owusu

2016

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmenta

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In this study, the potentiality and economic viability of solar photovoltaic (PV) in Ghana was assessed using RETScreen software. 5 MW of grid-connected solar PV power system using SunPower SPR-320E-WHT-D PV module can be harnessed from Navrongo, $17,752,179 of investment capital and 25,313 m 2 of land for PV installation. The potential of 5 MW grid-connected PV development for Accra, Kumasi, Wenchi, and Tafo are limited. However, there are solar PV energy potentials for low-capacity PV modules for these locations. Investing in solar photovoltaic technology is capital intensive in a developing country like Ghana. However, Government's effort to provide incentives like subsidies and creating the economic environment for private sector investment will boost investment possibilities of renewable energy in Ghana, which can help in curbing the recent power outages and load shedding, thereby increasing productivity and economic resilience.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The potential and economic viability of solar photovoltaic power in Ghana

Sarkodıe

Owusu

2016

Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization, and Environmenta

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“…This illustrates the fact that onshore wind power in many cases is the most cost-effective technology, but it is limited due to land constraints in the low land availability scenarios. The battery use, too, is higher in the default cases (S and C) with higher share of solar PV 9 . The reduced battery use for the high land availability cases (S-Hland and C-Hland) may be expected since batteries are primarily a short-term storage technology, with a natural synergy with the regular day/night cycles of solar PV.…”

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confidence: 94%

Deep Decarbonization and the Supergrid – Prospects for Electricity Transmission between Europe and China

Rechenberg¹,

Hedenus²,

Mattsson³

et al. 2020

SSRN Journal

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Long distance transmission within continents has been shown to be one of the most important variation management strategies in renewable energy systems, where allowing for transmission expansion will reduce system cost by around 20%. In this paper, we test whether the system cost further decreases when transmission is extended to intercontinental connections. We analyze a Eurasian interconnection between China, Mid-Asia and Europe, using a capacity expansion model with hourly time resolution. The model is constrained by an increasingly tighter global cap on CO2 emissions in order to investigate the effect of different levels of reliance on variable sources. Our results show that a supergrid option decreases total system cost by a maximum of 5%, compared to continental grid integration. This maximum effect is achieved when (i) the generation is constrained to be made up almost entirely by renewables, (ii) the land available for VRE farms is relatively limited and the demand is relatively high and (iii) the cost for solar PV and storage is high. The importance of these two factors is explained by that a super grid allows for harnessing of remote wind-, solar-and hydro resources as well as management of variations, both of which are consequential only in cases where dispatchable resources are limited or very costly. As for the importance of the cost for storage, it represents a competing variation management option, and when it has low cost, it substitutes part of the role of the supergrid, which is to manage variations through long-distance trade. The cost decrease from a Eurasian supergrid was found to be between 0% and 5%, compared to the cost in the case of continental-scale grids. We conclude that the benefits of a supergrid from a techno-economic perspective are in most cases negligible, or modest at best.

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“…Some researchers showed that the renewable energy interconnections between the North American countries would be cost-effective41 and environment-friendly 35,36,43. They also contend that expanding the existing interconnected grid would further decrease the need for excess electricity generation and storage 44. Therefore, numerous studies in the relevant literature suggest increasing the level of electricity integration between Canada and the US 35,40,45.…”

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Turkey’s energy trade relations with Europe: The role of institutions and energy market

Sakal

2020

Energy & Environment

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Globally, the level of electricity grid interconnectedness between neighboring countries varies depending on the level of regional cooperation enabled by institutions. As suggested by previous research, in transboundary river basins, this variation affects the environment and the management of transboundary waters. In regions where all electricity utilities are connected and function at a synchronized frequency, and where integrated electricity market mechanisms function, the stress on the shared water resources tends to be less. Turkey shares river basins and power transmission lines in Europe both with the members of the European Union (EU) and with non-member states. The aim of this paper is to contribute to the literature on the geopolitics of renewable energy by comparing the level of Turkey’s electricity trade integrity with its EU-member European neighbors and with its non-EU-member neighbors and discuss the potential impacts of the transboundary electricity trade on the environment and the shared water resources. The main argument in this paper is that the higher level of electricity trade between Turkey and its EU-member neighbors is facilitated and boosted by Turkey’s membership to the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E). The higher level of electricity interconnection leads to a higher level of cooperation in water and environment issues in the shared river basins between Turkey and Europe through the facilitating role of established institutions.

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Solar electricity supply isolines of generation capacity and storage

Cited by 15 publications

References 25 publications

The potential and economic viability of solar photovoltaic power in Ghana

The potential and economic viability of solar photovoltaic power in Ghana

Deep Decarbonization and the Supergrid – Prospects for Electricity Transmission between Europe and China

Turkey’s energy trade relations with Europe: The role of institutions and energy market

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