The impact of location on competitiveness of wind and PV power plants – case study for Austria

The generation potential of renewable energy sources and the time profile of production depends on geographic characteristics. Furthermore, the integration of renewable energy technologies into the energy system is constrained by current infrastructure. The paper does a preliminary assessment on how different choices of locations for the development of wind and photovoltaic power plants in Austria could affect the national energy system by 2020 and 2050. We use highly spatially and temporally resolved synthetic time series for potential sites of wind power and PV. We use the technology bottom-up JRC EU TIMES optimization model to assess how the choice of different locations for renewables affects the power system in terms of costs and CO2 emissions. Results show that disaggregating RES locations significantly affects results especially for wind leading higher electricity generation from wind and reduced electricity trade with other countries.

GAGO DA CAMARA SIMOES Sofia;  ZEYRINGER Marianne;  HULD Thomas;  SCHMIDT Johannes;  MAYR Dieter; 

2014-07-02

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JRC80098

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=6607406&url=http%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fxpls%2Fabs_all.jsp%3Farnumber%3D6607406,    https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC80098,   

10.1109/EEM.2013.6607406,