Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5482590 | Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews | 2017 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
A vast body of studies pertains to this question bringing results covering the full spectrum of resolutions and extents, using a variety of data sources, but mostly dealing with a single source. Our synthesis highlights the consistency of these works, and, besides astronomic forcing, we identify three broad climatic regimes governing the variability of renewable production and load. At sub-daily time scales, the three considered renewables have drastically different pattern sizes in response to small scale atmospheric processes. At regional scales, large perturbation weather patterns consistently control wind and solar production, hydropower having a clearly distinct type of pattern. At continental scales, all renewable sources and load seem to display patterns of constant space characteristics and no indication of marked temporal trends.
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Authors
Kolbjørn Engeland, Marco Borga, Jean-Dominique Creutin, Baptiste François, Maria-Helena Ramos, Jean-Philippe Vidal,