Grid integration feasibility and investment planning of offshore wind power under carbon-neutral transition in China.

ABSTRACT: Offshore wind power, with accelerated declining levelized costs, is emerging as a critical building-block to fully decarbonize the world's largest CO₂ emitter, China. However, system integration barriers as well as system balancing costs have not been quantified yet. Here we develop a bottom-up model to test the grid accommodation capabilities and design the optimal investment plans for offshore wind power considering resource distributions, hourly power system simulations, and transmission/storage/hydrogen investments. Results indicate that grid integration barriers exist currently at the provincial level. For 2030, optimized offshore wind investment levels should be doubled compared with current government plans, and provincial allocations should be significantly improved cons

SUBMITTER: Guo X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10141809 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature