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An action-oriented approach to make the most of the wind and solar power complementarity

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dc.contributor.authorJerez Rodríguez, Sonia
dc.contributor.authorBarriopedro, David
dc.contributor.authorLópez García, Alejandro
dc.contributor.authorLorente-Plazas, Raquel
dc.contributor.authorSomoza Gimeno, Andrés Manuel
dc.contributor.authorTurco, Marco
dc.contributor.authorCarrillo, Judit
dc.contributor.authorTrigo, Ricardo M.
dc.contributor.departmentFísica
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-16T12:45:53Z
dc.date.available2026-02-16T12:45:53Z
dc.date.copyright© 2023 The Authors
dc.date.issued2023-06-08
dc.description.abstractSolar and wind power are called to play a main role in the transition toward decarbonized electricity systems. However, their integration in the energy mix is highly compromised due to the intermittency of their production caused by weather and climate variability. To face the challenge, here we present research about actionable strategies for wind and solar photovoltaic facilities deployment that exploit their complementarity in order to minimize the volatility of their combined production while guaranteeing a certain supply. The developed methodology has been implemented in an open-access step-wise model called CLIMAX. It first identifies regions with homogeneous temporal variability of the resources, and then determines the optimal shares of each technology over such regions. In the simplistic application performed here, we customize the model to narrow the monthly deviations of the total wind-plus-solar electricity production from a given curve (here, the mean annual cycle of the total production) across five European domains. For the current shares of both technologies, the results show that an optimal siting of the power units would reduce the standard deviation of the monthly anomalies of the total wind-plus-solar power generation by up to 20% without loss in the mean capacity factor as compared to a baseline scenario with an evenly spatial distribution of the installations. This result further improves (up to 60% in specific regions) if the total shares of each technology are also optimized, thus encouraging the use of CLIMAX for practical guidance of next-generation renewable energy scenarios.
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dc.identifier.citationJerez, S., Barriopedro, D., García-López, A., Lorente-Plazas, R., Somoza, A. M., Turco, M., et al. (2023). An action-oriented approach to make the most of the wind and solar power complementarity. Earth's Future, 11, e2022EF003332. https://doi. org/10.1029/2022EF003332
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF003332
dc.identifier.eissn2328-4277
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10201/205762
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherWiley, American Geophysical Union
dc.relationThis study was supported by the Grant TED2021-131074B-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and cofunded by the European Union NExt- GenerationEU/PRTR, the EASE project (RTI2018-100870-A-I00, MCIU/AEI/ FEDER, UE) and the CLIMAX project (20642/JLI/18, Fundación Séneca–Agencia de Ciencia y Tecnología de la Región de Murcia). S. J. acknowledges funding by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities Ramón y Cajal Grant Reference RYC2020- 029993-I. M. T. acknowledges funding by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities Ramón y Cajal Grant Reference RYC2019- 027115-I. A. M. S. acknowledges support by AEI (Spain)/FEDER (EU) Grant PID2019-104272RB-C52/ AEI/10.13039/501100011033. D. B. was supported by the H2020 EU project CLINT (Grant Agreement 101003876) and the European Union NExtGenerationEU Regulation EU 2020/2094), through CSIC's Interdisciplinary Thematic Platform Clima (PTI Clima)/ Development of Operational Climate Services.
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2022EF003332
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dc.subject.odsObjetivo 7: Energía
dc.titleAn action-oriented approach to make the most of the wind and solar power complementarity
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