The Future of the European Electricity Grid Is Bright: Cost Minimizing Optimization Shows Solar with Storage as Dominant Technologies to Meet European Emissions Targets to 2050

Norwood, Zack; Goop, Joel; Odenberger, Mikael

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“…Carbon intensities for these hybrid energy systems have been found to be only slightly higher than that of PV and still lower than that of CSP [41][42][43]. However, studies on the future of these two solar energy technologies with storage find CSP to be economically preferable as it offers bigger storage capacities and greater efficiencies [44,45]. In order to push costs down through more extensive deployment further government support may be necessary to make this technology competitive.…”

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A triple bottom line assessment of concentrated solar power generation in China and Europe 2020–2050

Menacho

Rodrigues²,

Behrens³

2022

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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A triple bottom line assessment of concentrated solar power generation in China and Europe 2020–2050

Menacho

Rodrigues²,

Behrens³

2022

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…Moore and Shabani [36] stated that a 10-20% ESS capacity is generally needed, depending on the specific conditions of each grid, in order for the intermittent renewable energy sources such as wind and solar PV power, to be effectively integrated into power systems. In addition, the results of analysis conducted by Norwood et al [37] indicate that solar thermal, PV, and battery ESS will play an important role in meeting Europe's targets for renewable energy supply. The results of the studies above have shown that ESS relieves the burden of the power system due to increased variable renewable energy integration by mitigating the volatility of the power generation output of renewable energy, including PV, and by providing the primary and secondary reserves for frequency regulation service [21][22][23]30,31,33,[35][36][37][38][39].…”

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“…In addition, the results of analysis conducted by Norwood et al [37] indicate that solar thermal, PV, and battery ESS will play an important role in meeting Europe's targets for renewable energy supply. The results of the studies above have shown that ESS relieves the burden of the power system due to increased variable renewable energy integration by mitigating the volatility of the power generation output of renewable energy, including PV, and by providing the primary and secondary reserves for frequency regulation service [21][22][23]30,31,33,[35][36][37][38][39]. The studies also have verified that ESS increases the economic value of variable renewable energy by storing surplus power to participate in the energy trading market, and by bringing new investment opportunities through the substitution of a need to upgrade old distribution and substation facilities [32,34,39,40].…”

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An Evaluation of the Effect on the Expansion of Photovoltaic Power Generation According to Renewable Energy Certificates on Energy Storage Systems: A Case Study of the Korean Renewable Energy Market

Jang

2019

Sustainability

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As part of efforts to cope with climate change, countries around the world have decided to supply photovoltaic (PV) power. However, since the integration of PV affects the reliability and stability of a power system, increasing the penetration of PV generation requires better system flexibility. For this reason, many countries have recently established policies to disseminate energy storage systems (ESS). In this paper, we aim to evaluate the effectiveness of policies regarding ESS as a way to increase PV integration. We analyzed whether the policies were effective in spreading ESS to eventually increase PV integration. To do this, we first described the Korean government's policy of establishing a profit structure for ESS through the Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market and analyzed its effects on economic feasibility. We also analyzed how much the investment in ESS for PV integration has risen and assessed the contribution of spreading ESS to disseminate PV power. We found that ESS for the integration of PV have grown to a 41.0% share of Korea's ESS market in kW, and 32.8% in kWh, while expanding the PV market by 13.7%.Sustainability 2019, 11, 4337 2 of 17 decrease and strong governmental dissemination policies led this trend [3]. For example, the capital cost of utility scale PV for 2018 fell to about 25% compared to 2010. On the other hand, during the same period, the capital cost of coal fired power, gas power, and nuclear power, have changed little or even increased.In addition, developed countries such as the United States and European countries are endeavoring to cope with climate change and to lead energy transition with the expansion of renewable energy. The United States has decided to cut its GHG emissions by 26-28% from 2005 levels by 2025, according to the INDC submitted to the UN on 31 March 2015 [5]. It plans to cut about five billion tons by 2020, which is a 17% reduction compared to 2005, and 4.3 billion tons, which is a 26-28% reduction, by 2025. To that end, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a Clean Power plan for carbon-dioxide reduction on 23 October 2015 [6]. This guideline aims to reduce GHG emissions in power generation by expanding natural and renewable energy and reducing the use of fossil fuels. On 10 October 2017, the abolition plan containing the review result based on the reconsideration request was submitted, and the Affordable Clean Energy Rule was proposed on 21 August 2018 [7,8]. As a result, the proportion of coal-fired power decreased from 50% in 2005 to 30% in 2017, natural gas power increased from 19% to 32%, and non-hydro renewable energy, such as wind and solar, increased from 2% to 10%, and CO 2 emissions decreased by 27% [9].In Japan, which has decided to reduce GHG by 26% by 2030 compared to 2013, the nation's total GHG emissions decreased by 3.0% year-on-year in 2014 [10]. Despite the decrease in the proportion of nuclear-power generation, carbon-dioxide emissions decreased because of the decrease of petroleum thermal power, the increase of renew...

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“…[52] Other studies have also analyzed systems with an ambitious goal of 100% of RES. [36,50,58,62,81] Moreover, as the number of studies has largely increased, several tools have been proposed to assist the generation expansion planning and RES design, such as EnergyPLAN, [22] EnergyScopeTD, [49] HOMER, [37] LEAP, [75] SILVER, [55] TIMES, [39] among others. [11] However, most of these studies focus on renewable resources while keeping the electrical grid out of their analysis.…”

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Definition of Scenarios for Modern Power Systems with a High Renewable Energy Share

Collados‐Rodríguez¹,

Antolí-Gil²,

Sánchez‐Sánchez³

et al. 2023

Global Challenges

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increasing the integration of Renewable Energy Sources (RES), such as wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, ocean and biomass. In the same direction, the European Union has set targets for specific levels of RES integration in the future European energy mix, with progressive participation of 20% in 2020, [28] 32% in 2030 and two-thirds in 2050. [24,25,27] These goals are to be achieved considering the participation of all Member States, which are defining their own policies and goals to match the general targets. For instance, Spain has established a target of 42% of RES share on energy end-use by 2030. [74] Germany and France defined a target of 65% and 40% of RES in the final electricity consumption, respectively. [26] In order to achieve the aforementioned targets, realistic power systems models are required, considering a variety of technologies, system topologies, and elements such as high-voltage direct current (HVDC), [78] microgrids, [34] virtual power plants, and dynamic virtual power plants. [53] Various future scenarios are being analyzed for each system and region to ensure that the future energy systems, composed mostly of RES, can remain stable, reliable, match the demand during the seasonal variations across the year, and are economically feasible. These studies are regional by nature as they consider local weather and the availability of resources. Some examples were conducted for provinces or regions, such as Ontario, [55] British Columbia, [63] the New York State, [51] among others. [7,13,31,46] Similar studies have also been performed using data from countries, such as Australia, [15] Bangladesh, [33] Brazil, [72,14] Chile, [54] France, [47] Germany, [66] India, [4] Italy, Pakistan, [71] Portugal, [65,30] United Arab Emirates, [3] and the United States. [52] Other studies have also analyzed systems with an ambitious goal of 100% of RES. [36,50,58,62,81] Moreover, as the number of studies has largely increased, several tools have been proposed to assist the generation expansion planning and RES design, such as EnergyPLAN, [22] EnergyScopeTD, [49] HOMER, [37] LEAP, [75] SILVER, [55] TIMES, [39] among others. [11] However, most of these studies focus on renewable resources while keeping the electrical grid out of their analysis. The contrary is also true for the grids, as several power system benchmarks have been proposed without a clear rationale for the resource type and location in the grid. A few examples are the IEEE and the CIGRE benchmarks. [64] As the power systems are adapting to support a massive integration of RES, both the resources and the Recent environmental policies have led academic, industrial, and governmental stakeholders to plan scenarios with a high share of renewable energy sources (RES), to ensure that future energy systems, composed mostly of RES, can remain stable, match the demand during seasonal variations and are economically feasible. This article considers different energy scenarios to obtain various options in terms of size, generation technologies, and grid configuratio...

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The Future of the European Electricity Grid Is Bright: Cost Minimizing Optimization Shows Solar with Storage as Dominant Technologies to Meet European Emissions Targets to 2050

Cited by 8 publications

References 17 publications

A triple bottom line assessment of concentrated solar power generation in China and Europe 2020–2050

A triple bottom line assessment of concentrated solar power generation in China and Europe 2020–2050

An Evaluation of the Effect on the Expansion of Photovoltaic Power Generation According to Renewable Energy Certificates on Energy Storage Systems: A Case Study of the Korean Renewable Energy Market

Definition of Scenarios for Modern Power Systems with a High Renewable Energy Share

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