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This report has various objectives: (i) to provide an overview of the climate Integrated Assessment approach; (ii) to describe the Global Climate Assessment Model (GCAM); (iii) to outline the new IPCC scenario framework represented by the Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) and the...
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nuclear penetration scenario ($73.7trillion). However, for some nations with a high current share of renewables and a low … nationally appropriate mix of renewables achieves far superior cost and land effectiveness compared to a renewables-only future …
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Transport-energy transitions pose complex challenges that have been extensively studied in high-income countries in response to national mandates for climate action. Low- and middle-income countries, however, have low but rapidly growing motorisation rates and face very different challenges in...
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renewables, implying that the most salient feature of the last 200 years of energy history is the dramatic rise in the use of …
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, resource efficient, and renewables based constitution on the one hand, and a fine tuning of selected material flows (e.g. for …
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expansion of renewables promoted by fixed feed-in tariffs and unlimited priority feed-in - on neighbouring countries. We find … support schemes caused a price decrease of up to 0.17 percent for each percent of additional generation from German renewables …
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Strongly correlated and spatially concentrated curtailment of power plants strongly affects the electricity market. Such curtailment is observed during heat waves in middle Europe, for example. First, curtailed power plants need to be substituted by more expensive ones. Second, additional...
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The emerging literature on power markets with high shares of fluctuating renewables suggests that more frequent start … fluctuating renewables quadruples between 2010 and 2030. We find that the overall number of start-ups decreases by a third, while … slightly and remains below 1%. Several overlapping effects drive these results. The expansion of fluctuating renewables alone …
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This text provides a financial survey of a small sample of Czech photovoltaic (PV) plants. To evaluate the extent of market losses, we calculate the shadow market price of solar electricity. From the profit and loss accounts of the PV plants and the shadow market price we estimate the total...
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, transport, and storage (CCTS), while the cost of renewables tends to be overestimated. In particular this applies to … contrast to renewables, neither nuclear energy nor carbon capture, transport, and storage are cost efficient enough to play a … development of renewables. This requires the setting of ambitious renewables targets for 2030 as well as clear emissions reduction …
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