Virtual energy storage gain resulting from the spatio-temporal coordination of hydropower over Europe

Wörman, Anders; Uvo, Cíntia Bertacchi; Brandimarte, Luigia; Büsse, Sebastian; Crochemore, Louise; Lopez, Marc Girons; Hao, Shuang; Pechlivanidis, Ilias; Riml, Joakim

doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2020.115249

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“…In particular, systems with similar climatological and hydrological conditions over the globe can be of high relevance to the energy sector. Hence the results presented here can guide decision making in hydropower management and risk reduction (Contreras et al, 2020;Wörman et al, 2020) by pointing out the seasons and lead times for which implementing ESP and/or GCM-MF hydrological forecasts with and without data assimilation can be strategic.…”

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confidence: 87%

Evaluation of Earth Observations and In Situ Data Assimilation for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting

Musuuza

Crochemore

Pechlivanidis

2023

Water Resources Research

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Earth observations (EO) and in situ data assimilation (DA) improve hydrological forecasting quality depending on season and assimilated data; effects persist for long periods • DA is relatively more important than meteorological forcing to improve the hydrological forecast quality during all seasons except autumn • Assimilating EO-based snow water equivalent in winter impacts seasonal forecasts for 3 months+, hence it's beneficial to have high-quality snow information

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Section: Applicability Of Insights In Other Domainsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Evaluation of Earth Observations and In Situ Data Assimilation for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting

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Crochemore

Pechlivanidis

2023

Water Resources Research

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“…The entire potential electricity production can precisely match the consumption by spatiotemporal management and using the present hydropower in complement with suitable shares of solar and wind power. Previous studies on virtual energy storage have considered multienergy systems on a river basin size of 128,000 km 2 (Jing et al, 2023) or single energy sources (Wörman et al, 2020). However, here, we reveal the signi cant enhancement of the national potentials for complementarity between renewable energy mixes induced as the spatiotemporal coordination is extended across Europe over an area of 13,600,000 km 2 , hence emphasizing the VESG that may arise in the international energy trade.…”

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“…Previous analyses showed that spatiotemporal coordination of hydropower production alone induces a VESG on the continental scale, which is twice that of the existing hydropower reservoirs (Wörman et al, 2020). The complementary effects of solar, wind and hydropower enhance the VESG even further, which in principle makes it possible to keep the energy storage demand well below the storage capacity of existing hydropower reservoirs (section 3.1).…”

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Continental Complementarity of Renewable Energy Mixes

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Intermittent weather and long-term periodic climate fluctuations cause large variations in renewable electricity production, which can require substantial amounts of energy storage to overcome energy drought periods. Fulfilling the energy storage demand is a key problem in ensuring renewable energy supply and is of great political concern to energy security across Europe. Here, based on a 35-year historical record of daily hydroclimatic data and information about existing hydropower, wind power and solar power systems covering the European continent, we reveal the strong complementarity inherent in the solar-wind-hydro energy components of the continental climate system. We show that the spatiotemporal management of renewable electricity production over the European continent can induce a Virtual Energy Storage Gain that is several times larger than the available energy storage capacity in hydropower reservoirs. The entire potential electricity production can precisely match the consumption by spatiotemporal management and using the present hydropower complemented by suitable shares of solar and wind power. While the mixed renewable energy potential varies less than anticipated at the continental scale, utilization of the complementarity requires new continental electrical transmission lines as well as stable international collaboration and trade. Hence, we highlight that management models need to consider incentives well beyond national boundaries to appropriately benefit from the covariances of continental climate conditions.

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“…The eastern region of China accounts for 41.56% of the total national consumption in 2020, while western regions account for 38.87% and 19.57%, respectively. The regional differences are large [14]. In terms of energy use consumption, the five provinces with the lowest energy consumption accounted for 16.54% of the country's energy consumption but their combined GDP only accounted for 8.28% of the country's GDP.…”

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Regional differentiation in influencing factors of clean renewable energy consumption from the perspective of air pollution prevention and control

Zhan

2023

3C Tecnología

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Global economic growth is now increasingly conflicting with the sustainable development strategy. In the context of ecological environmental preservation and air pollution prevention and control, this paper probes into the regional differentiation in the influencing factors of clean renewable energy consumption. First and foremost, a brief analysis of the status quo of clean renewable consumption in China was outputted, grounded on data on the input and output of 30 provinces and cities nationwide from 2010 to 2020. Then, national and regional models are built respectively in virtue of differential GMM, systematic GMM, and bias-corrected LSDV methods. Furthermore, efforts were invested in dissecting the working mechanism of the influencing factors and verifying the previous prediction resulting in applying the Tobit regression method. For every 1% increase in the green finance index, the clean renewable energy consumption rises by 0.882 accordingly, said the regression analysis results. Last but not least, it was concluded that the development level of green finance, internet advance, and technological progress significantly positively affected clean renewable energy consumption. While the industrial structure, the degree of openness, and the level of urbanization represented by the proportion of the secondary industry play hardly-seen impact.

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Virtual energy storage gain resulting from the spatio-temporal coordination of hydropower over Europe

Cited by 17 publications

References 38 publications

Evaluation of Earth Observations and In Situ Data Assimilation for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting

Evaluation of Earth Observations and In Situ Data Assimilation for Seasonal Hydrological Forecasting

Continental Complementarity of Renewable Energy Mixes

Regional differentiation in influencing factors of clean renewable energy consumption from the perspective of air pollution prevention and control

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