Seasonal optimal mix of wind and solar power in a future, highly renewable Europe

Renewable Energy

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2483-2489

  Heide, Dominik ^a   von Bremen, Lueder ^b   Greiner, Martin ^c,d   Hoffmann, Clemens ^c   Speckmann, Markus ^e   Bofinger, Stefan ^e  

^a FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^c SIEMENS AG   (Germany)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^e FRAUNHOFER IWES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Large scale integration; Power supply system design; Solar power generation; Storage; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

LARGE SCALE INTEGRATION; LOAD CURVES; POWER SUPPLY; POWER-SUPPLY SYSTEM DESIGN; RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION; STORED ENERGY; WIND AND SOLAR POWER;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; LSI CIRCUITS; OPTIMIZATION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; SOLAR POWER PLANTS; WIND POWER;

SOLAR ENERGY;

FUTURE PROSPECT; POWER GENERATION; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SEASONALITY; SOLAR POWER; WIND POWER;

EUROPE;

EID: 77954816281     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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