Towards a Zero-Carbon Electricity System for India in 2050: IDEEA Model-Based Scenarios Integrating Wind and Solar Complementarity and Geospatial Endowments

Lugovoy, Olеg; Jyothiprakash, Varun; Chatterjee, Sourish; Sharma, Samridh; Mukherjee, Arijit; Das, Abhishek; Some, Shreya; Dinesha, Disha Lagadamane; Das, Nandini; Bosu, Parthaa; Dasgupta, Shyamasree; Padhi, Lavanya; Roy, Biswanath; Thakur, Biswajit; Debsarkar, Anupam; Balachandra, P.; Roy, Joyashree

doi:10.3390/en14217063

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“…Country-specific analysis provides essential detail that cannot be captured by the global analyses due to the complexity of the modeling transition pathways to 100% renewable energy. Lugovoy [7] explores the zero-carbon transition of China's electric power generation and [8] summarizes results of an analogous study for India. Few studies have examined the feasibility of a zero-carbon transition for Russia.…”

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Decarbonizing Russia: Leapfrogging from Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen

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We examine a different approach to complete the decarbonization of the Russian economy in a world where climate policy increasingly requires the radical reduction of emissions wherever possible. We propose an energy system that can supply solar and wind-generated electricity to fulfill demand and which accounts for intermittency problems. This is instead of the common approach of planning for expensive carbon capture and storage, and a massive increase in energy efficiency and, therefore, a drastic reduction in energy use per unit of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Coupled with this massive increase in alternative energy, we also propose using excess electricity to generate green hydrogen. Hydrogen technology can function as storage for future electricity needs or for potential fuel use. Importantly, green hydrogen can potentially be used as a replacement export for Russia’s current fossil fuel exports. The analysis was carried out using the highly detailed modeling framework, the High-Resolution Renewable Energy System for Russia (HIRES-RUS) representative energy system. The modeling showed that there are a number of feasible combinations of wind and solar power generation coupled with green hydrogen production to achieve 100% decarbonization of the Russian economy.

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“…Solar energy is positioned as another key option in transitioning to net-zero in the academic literature. As with the literature on wind energy, numerous studies project solar supplying over half of all electricity generation in their given study areas (Handayani et al, 2022;Kanugrahan et al, 2022;Lugovoy et al, 2021b;Manjong et al, 2021)…”

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“…The spatial and temporal constraints regarding wind and solar resource availability are frequently discussed in the literature (Gulagi et al, 2017;Gulagi et al, 2018;Barthelmie and Pryor, 2021;Dominkovic et al, 2016;Lugovoy et al, 2021b;Ji et al, 2022;Scheepers et al, 2022;Zhai et al, 2023). Solutions proposed to alleviate these issues include diversifying the energy system so that it is not overly reliant on one energy source (Dominkovic et al, 2016;Galvan et al, 2022;Kanugrahan et al, 2022;Pradhan et al, 2022), and deploying energy storage systems.…”

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Zero carbon transitions: a systematic review of the research landscape and climate mitigation potential

Shaw,

Mander,

Parkes

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Academia has a crucial role to play in informing urgently needed actions on climate mitigation. It is vital to understand what is known about the potential contribution of climate mitigation options, the barriers that exist to achieving that contribution, and to quantify the research balance and geographic focus of these various approaches across the literature. This PRISMA-based systematic literature review aims to provide the reader with the following: Firstly, an overview of the post-Paris climate mitigation research landscape and secondly, an assessment of the climate mitigation potential of those options per the literature reviewed. Analysis of the research landscape demonstrated that supply-side research greatly outnumbers that on the demand-side, which totalled just half of that which focused on the supply-side. In terms of the geographic scale, the reviewed literature was dominated by national-level studies, with sub-national studies the least common, particularly those at a local government level. Given this, it can be concluded that two key areas would benefit from further research–that focusing on demand-side mitigation, and that carrying research out at more local levels. On climate mitigation potential, wind and solar energy were found to be the biggest contributors to a decarbonised energy supply, across a range of study areas. Discrepancies were identified between findings in the academic and grey literature for several options, chiefly bioenergy and nuclear power: bioenergy made significantly higher contributions in the academic literature versus grey literature, with the opposite true for nuclear. Demand-side options all demonstrated significant mitigation potential in the literature reviewed but received very limited coverage in comparison to many of their supply-side counterparts. Future research should pursue this knowledge gap to reach a better understanding of the contributions they can make and ensure that policymakers have the data necessary to chart a course to a zero-carbon future.

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“…Power system modelling simulations show that it is possible for India to meet its climate mitigation targets by adopting large shares of renewable generation if it is complemented by large‐scale installation of storage technologies to meet demands in times of particularly low renewable generation output (Gulagi et al, 2017, 2020; Lu et al, 2020; Lugovoy et al, 2021). One of the key challenges for operating resilient power grids with large penetrations of renewables is managing the variability of weather‐dependent renewables (Bloomfield et al, 2016).…”

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Quantifying renewable energy potential and realized capacity in India: Opportunities and challenges

Hunt,

Bloomfield

2024

Meteorological Applications

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As both the population and economic output of India continue to grow, so does its demand for electricity. Coupled with an increasing determination to transition to net zero, India has responded to this rising demand by rapidly expanding its installed renewable capacity: an increase of 60% in the last 5 years has been driven largely by a quintupling of installed solar capacity. In this study, we use broad variety of data sources to quantify potential and realized capacity over India from 1979 to 2022. For potential capacity, we identify spatiotemporal patterns in solar, wind, hydro and wave power. We show that solar capacity factor is relatively homogeneous across India, except over the western Himalaya, and is highest during the pre‐monsoon. Wind capacity factor is highest during the summer monsoon, and has high values off the southern coast, along the Western Ghats, and in Gujarat. We argue that wave power could be a useful source of renewable energy for the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which are not connected to the main Indian power grid. Using gridded estimates of existing installed capacity combined with our historical capacity factor dataset, we create a simple but effective renewable production model. We use this model to identify weaknesses in the existing grid—particularly a lack of complementarity between wind and solar production in north India, and vulnerability to high‐deficit generation in the winter. We discuss potential avenues for future renewable investment to counter existing seasonality problems, principally offshore wind and high‐altitude solar.

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Towards a Zero-Carbon Electricity System for India in 2050: IDEEA Model-Based Scenarios Integrating Wind and Solar Complementarity and Geospatial Endowments

Cited by 16 publications

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Decarbonizing Russia: Leapfrogging from Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen

Decarbonizing Russia: Leapfrogging from Fossil Fuel to Hydrogen

Zero carbon transitions: a systematic review of the research landscape and climate mitigation potential

Quantifying renewable energy potential and realized capacity in India: Opportunities and challenges

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