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Geographical balancing of wind power decreases storage needs in a 100% renewable European power sector

Roth, Alexander, Schill, Wolf-Peter·2023·iScience
DOI 10.1016/j.isci.2023.107074PMC PMC10318522
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  • The lower drought severity and storage needs in the pan-European copperplate scenario are due to a geographical balancing effect that spatially smooths renewable generation and demand patterns across all of Europe, and reservoir and pumped hydro storage balancing renewable droughts without transmission constraints across Europe, particularly large-scale capacities in Scandinavia.

    “This is due to a geographical balancing effect, which spatially smooths renewable generation and demand patterns across all of Europe, thereby mitigating extreme droughts32,33, and reservoir and pumped hydro storage balancing renewable droughts without transmission constraints across Europe, particularly the large-scale capacities in Scandinavia.”

    From Long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with Dunkelflaute events in Europe (2026) · cites this paper as [32]

    The Introduction and Results support the geographical-balancing explanation: interconnection among twelve central European countries reduces storage needs because weather and demand patterns differ. They do not establish lower drought severity in a pan-European copperplate scenario. The study uses fixed, limited interconnection capacities, and its Results say hydropower has only a limited effect on storage reduction; they do not support the claimed role of large-scale Scandinavian hydro. Page numbers were not available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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  • In Europe, cross-border interconnection can mitigate energy storage needs, particularly by balancing differences in wind power availability across countries.

    “In Europe, such cross-border interconnection can mitigate energy storage needs, particularly by balancing differences in wind power availability across countries32.”

    From Long-duration electricity storage needs for coping with Dunkelflaute events in Europe (2026) · cites this paper as [32]

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Roth, A., & Schill, W.-P.
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iScience
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Elsevier BV
Published
2023-07
Volume
26
Issue
7
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107074
ISSN
2589-0042
DOI
10.1016/j.isci.2023.107074
PMC
PMC10318522
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  • Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz (FKZ 03EI1019D)
  • Foundation for Sarcoidosis Research

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