Burden of proof: A comprehensive review of the feasibility of 100% renewable-electricity systems

By Ben P. Heard, Barry W. Brook, T. Wigley, Corey J. A. Bradshaw. 2017

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Subfields: Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Energy Engineering and Power Technology, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

Abandoning the concept of renewable energy (2019, background): “Such renewables focused studies have evoked several critical responses in energy policy literature (Trainer 2012; Clack et al. 2017; Heard et al. 2017; Heuberger and Dowell 2018) and also generated”
Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: extreme events and inter-annual variability (2022, background): “The viability of 100% renewable electricity supply continues to be a controversial topic (Jacobson et al 2015, Clack et al 2017, Heard et al 2017, Brown et al 2018, Bogdanov et al 2019, Tröndle et al 2020).”
Is a 100% renewable European power system feasible by 2050? (2019, positive): “[42] found no consistent definition for feasibility, and instead based their assessment on whether studies: (i) performed simulations using PSM to ensure that supply could meet demand reliably, (ii) assumed demand levels consistent with mainstream forecasts, (iii) identified the necessary transmissi”
The feasibility of 100% renewable electricity systems: A response to critics (2018, background): “Like [31], Smil identifies scenarios by politically influential energy organisations with credible predictions.”
Foundations and Challenges of Low-Inertia Systems (Invited Paper) (2018, background): “Also, many existing future-grid scenario studies have focused on simple power balancing using a copper plate model of the transmission network [16], and have used a range of assumptions, e.”
Carbon‐Neutral Pathways for the United States (2021, background): “There has been a vigorous debate over the feasibility of electricity systems with very high levels of VRE generation (Brown, Bischof‐Niemz, et al., 2018; Clack et al., 2017; Diesendorf & Elliston, 2018; Heard et al., 2017; Jacobson et al., 2015, 2017; Jenkins et al., 2018).”
Status and perspectives on 100% renewable energy systems (2019, background): “In some studies, authors argue that it will be extremely costly (and technically infeasible) to perform this 100% RE transition [75,207,208], while other researchers find that it is both technically and economically feasible [143,145,150,224,227].”