LAPSE:2019.1564
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LAPSE:2019.1564
Principal Mismatch Patterns Across a Simplified Highly Renewable European Electricity Network
Mads Raunbak, Timo Zeyer, Kun Zhu, Martin Greiner
December 10, 2019
Due to its spatio-temporal variability, the mismatch between the weather and demand patterns challenges the design of highly renewable energy systems. A principal component analysis is applied to a simplified networked European electricity system with a high share of wind and solar power generation. It reveals a small number of important mismatch patterns, which explain most of the system’s required backup and transmission infrastructure. Whereas the first principal component is already able to reproduce most of the temporal mismatch variability for a solar dominated system, a few more principal components are needed for a wind dominated system. Due to its monopole structure the first principal component causes most of the system’s backup infrastructure. The next few principal components have a dipole structure and dominate the transmission infrastructure of the renewable electricity network.
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energy system design, large-scale integration of renewables, principal component analysis, renewable energy networks, solar power, super grid, wind power
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Raunbak M, Zeyer T, Zhu K, Greiner M. Principal Mismatch Patterns Across a Simplified Highly Renewable European Electricity Network. (2019). LAPSE:2019.1564
Author Affiliations
Raunbak M: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Ny Munkegade 120, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [ORCID]
Zeyer T: DONG Energy A/S, Teknikerbyen 25, 2830 Virum, Denmark
Zhu K: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Inge Lehmanns Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Greiner M: Department of Engineering, Aarhus University, Inge Lehmanns Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark [ORCID]
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Energies
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10
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12
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E1934
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2017
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2017-11-23
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1996-1073
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