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Combing windpower and hydropower to decrease seasonal and inter-annual availability of renewable energy sources in Brazil

Schmidt, Johannes; Cancella, Rafael; Junior, Amaro … - 2014

A high share of Brazilian power production comes from hydropower sources. A further expansion of power generation is necessary due to high growth rates in electricity demand. As an alternative to carbon intensive thermal power production and the expansion of hydropower in the ecologically and...

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Storage requirements in a 100% renewable electricity system: Extreme events and inter-annual variability

Ruhnau, Oliver; Qvist, Staffan - 2021

In the context of 100% renewable electricity systems, prolonged periods with persistently scarce supply from wind and solar resources have received increasing academic and political attention. This article explores how such scarcity periods relate to energy storage requirements. To this end, we...

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Europe's energy security : from Russian dependence to renewable reliance

Ah-Voun, David; Chyong, Chi Kong; Li, Carmen - In: Energy policy : the international journal of the … 184 (2024), pp. 1-23

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Indian agriculture under climate change: The competing effect of temperature and rainfall anomalies

Gallé, Johannes; Katzenberger, Anja - 2023

The latest generation of global climate models robustly projects that the summer monsoon rainfall in India will … significantly increase in the 21st century due to global warming and that rainfall anomalies will occur more often. This raises the … estimate the relationship between weather indices (amount of seasonal rainfall, number of wet days, average temperature) and …