Transmission needs across a fully renewable European power system

Renewable Energy

Volumn 63, Issue , 2014, Pages 467-476

  Rodríguez, Rolando A ^a   Becker, Sarah ^b   Andresen, Gorm B ^a   Heide, Dominik ^c   Greiner, Martin ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b FRANKFURT INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDIES   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Constrained power flow; Large scale integration; Power transmission; Renewable energy system; Solar power generation; Wind power generation

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION; POWER FLOWS; RENEWABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS; RENEWABLE GENERATION; SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS; TRANSFER CAPACITIES; TRANSMISSION CAPACITIES; VARIABLE RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SCALE INTEGRATION;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; POWER TRANSMISSION; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; SOLAR POWER GENERATION; WIND POWER; SOLAR ENERGY;

ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION;

DATA SET; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM; POWER PLANT; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; SOLAR POWER; WIND POWER;

EUROPE;

EID: 84886259879     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2013.10.005     Document Type: Article

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