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Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections
Increasing levels of photovoltaic (PV) penetration to the electricity grid brings challenges to both design and operation of the grid due to its vulnerability to climate change. A crucial aspect of PV operation is power ramps leading to variability and instability in the grid. With notable large-sca...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10397292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37532699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38566-z |
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author | Poddar, Shukla Evans, Jason P. Kay, Merlinde Prasad, Abhnil Bremner, Stephen |
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description | Increasing levels of photovoltaic (PV) penetration to the electricity grid brings challenges to both design and operation of the grid due to its vulnerability to climate change. A crucial aspect of PV operation is power ramps leading to variability and instability in the grid. With notable large-scale PV deployment planned, including the world’s largest planned solar energy infrastructure in Powell Creek Australia, characterising future ramps is crucial for ensuring stable power generation to support large-scale economic development. Using CORDEX-Australasia projections under RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 emission scenarios, future solar ramps across Australia have been characterised up to 2100. Results predict a reduction in ramp magnitude across Australia, with changes in frequency and period length varying with the location. This work highlights the importance of considering future changes in climate when designing large-scale solar farms to ensure the incorporation of frequency control devices and storage plans for a reliable power supply. |
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spelling | pubmed-103972922023-08-04 Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections Poddar, Shukla Evans, Jason P. Kay, Merlinde Prasad, Abhnil Bremner, Stephen Sci Rep Article Increasing levels of photovoltaic (PV) penetration to the electricity grid brings challenges to both design and operation of the grid due to its vulnerability to climate change. A crucial aspect of PV operation is power ramps leading to variability and instability in the grid. With notable large-scale PV deployment planned, including the world’s largest planned solar energy infrastructure in Powell Creek Australia, characterising future ramps is crucial for ensuring stable power generation to support large-scale economic development. Using CORDEX-Australasia projections under RCP8.5 and RCP4.5 emission scenarios, future solar ramps across Australia have been characterised up to 2100. Results predict a reduction in ramp magnitude across Australia, with changes in frequency and period length varying with the location. This work highlights the importance of considering future changes in climate when designing large-scale solar farms to ensure the incorporation of frequency control devices and storage plans for a reliable power supply. Nature Publishing Group UK 2023-08-02 /pmc/articles/PMC10397292/ /pubmed/37532699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38566-z Text en © The Author(s) 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Poddar, Shukla Evans, Jason P. Kay, Merlinde Prasad, Abhnil Bremner, Stephen Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title | Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title_full | Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title_fullStr | Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title_full_unstemmed | Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title_short | Assessing Australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
title_sort | assessing australia’s future solar power ramps with climate projections |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10397292/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37532699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-38566-z |
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