The impacts on climate mitigation costs of considering curtailment and storage of variable renewable energy in a general equilibrium model

Energy Economics

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages 627-637

  Dai, Hancheng ^a   Fujimori, Shinichiro ^a   Silva Herran, Diego ^a   Shiraki, Hiroto ^a   Masui, Toshihiko ^a   Matsuoka, Yuzuru ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Asia Pacific Integrated Modeling Computable General Equilibrium (AIM CGE); Computable general equilibrium model; Curtailment and storage; Variable renewable energy

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; COSTS; DIGITAL STORAGE;

CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; EQUIVALENT CONCENTRATIONS; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; RESOURCE POTENTIALS; VARIABLE RENEWABLE ENERGIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM ANALYSIS; RENEWABLE RESOURCE;

EID: 84975472541     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.03.002     Document Type: Article

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