System LCOE: What are the Costs of Variable Renewables?

By Falko Ueckerdt, Lion Hirth, Gunnar Luderer, Ottmar Edenhofer. 2013

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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The Market Value of Variable Renewables The Effect of Solar and Wind Power Variability on their Relative Price (2013, neutral): “Ueckerdt et al. (2012) propose a methodology how profile costs can be taken into account in energy system models that lack the high temporal resolution needed to capture them directly.”
Market value of solar power: Is photovoltaics cost-competitive? (2015, methodology): “Facing incomplete information about the full matrix of electricity prices, we use a framework proposed by [39] and [40] to approximate the solar market value.”
A worldwide cost-based design and optimization of tilted bifacial solar farms (2018, background): “around the world [1–4]. Levelized cost of energy (LCOE) is used as a metric to compare the economic viability of various sources of energy, e.g., wind, hydropower, coal, natural gas, solar energy etc.[5,6]. So far, solar energy still falls behind its competitors in this comparison [2,7]. There has b”
Feasible path toward 40–100% renewable energy shares for power supply in France by 2050: A prospective analysis (2016, background): “They do not offer the same service as conventional generato rs and, as consequence, high VRE penetration levels, if not carefully anticipated, c ould hinder power system management and strongly push up power supply costs [6].”
Using the sun to decarbonize the power sector: The economic potential of photovoltaics and concentrating solar power ☆ (2014, methodology): “To better understand the competition between the two solar technologies, we employ the concept of System LCOE from Ueckerdt et al [65] and analyze how VRE integration costs influence the average and marginal levelized costs of electricity production over time 12 (see Figure 9).”
Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems (2017, background): “The Mason and colleagues’ studies reinforce the notion that integration of variable renewable energy sources into existing grids can be cost-effective up to penetrations of around 20%, after which integration costs escalate rapidly [120,121].”
The Market Value of Variable Renewables (2013, neutral): “Ueckerdt et al. (2013) propose a methodology on how profile costs can be taken into account in energy system models that lack the high temporal resolution needed to capture them directly.”