RT Journal Article
T1 The potential impact of climate change on the efficiency and reliability of solar, hydro, and wind energy sources
A1 Bhatt, Uma S.
A1 Carreras, Benjamin A.
A1 Reynolds Barredo, José Miguel
A1 Newman, David E.
A1 Collet, Pere
A1 Gomila, Damia
AB Climate change impacts the electric power system by affecting both the load and generation. It is paramount to understand this impact in the context of renewable energy as their market share has increased and will continue to grow. This study investigates the impact of climate change on the supply of renewable energy through applying novel metrics of intermittency, power production and storage required by the renewable energy plants as a function of historical climate data variability. Here we focus on and compare two disparate locations, Palma de Mallorca in the Balearic Islands and Cordova, Alaska. The main results of this analysis of wind, solar radiation and precipitation over the 1950–2020 period show that climate change impacts both the total supply available and its variability. Importantly, this impact is found to vary significantly with location. This analysis demonstrates the feasibility of a process to evaluate the local optimal mix of renewables, the changing needs for energy storage as well as the ability to evaluate the impact on grid reliability regarding both penetration of the increasing renewable resources and changes in the variability of the resource. This framework can be used to quantify the impact on both transmission grids and microgrids and can guide possible mitigation paths.
PB MDPI
SN 2073-445X
YR 2022
FD 2022-08
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37351
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/37351
LA eng
NO P.C. and D.G. acknowledge financial support from Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI, Spain), and the Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER, EU) under grant PACSS (RTI2018-093732-B-C22) and the Maria de Maeztu program for Units of Excellence in R&D (MDM-2017-0711). D.N. gratefully acknowledges support from DOE Project GMLC 1.5.02—Resilient Alaskan Distribution system Improvements using Automation, Network analysis, Control, and Energy storage (RADIANCE). U.S.B. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation under award #OIA-1753748 and by the State of Alaska for material which this work is based upon.
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