Decarbonizing global power supply under region-specific consideration of challenges and options of integrating variable renewables in the REMIND model

Energy Economics

Volumn 64, Issue , 2017, Pages 665-684

  Ueckerdt, Falko ^a   Pietzcker, Robert ^a   Scholz, Yvonne ^b   Stetter, Daniel ^b   Giannousakis, Anastasis ^a   Luderer, Gunnar ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Climate mitigation; Electricity storage; Integrated Assessment Models; Integration of variable renewables

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC ENERGY STORAGE; ELECTRIC POWER SYSTEMS; HYDROGEN STORAGE; TIME SERIES;

CLIMATE MITIGATIONS; ELECTRICITY STORAGES; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; GLOBAL ELECTRICITY DEMANDS; HYDROGEN ELECTROLYSIS; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT MODELS; RENEWABLES; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY MARKET; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; REGIONAL ECONOMY; RENEWABLE RESOURCE; STORAGE;

EID: 84979765684     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2016.05.012     Document Type: Article

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