Flexing with lines or pipes: Techno-economic comparison of renewable electricity import options for European research facilities.

ABSTRACT: Where local resources for renewable electricity are scarce or insufficient, long-distance electricity imports will be required in the future. Even across long distances, the variable availability of renewable energy sources needs to be managed for which dedicated storage options are usually considered. Other alternatives could be demand-side flexibility and concentrated solar power with integrated thermal energy storage. Here their influence on the cost of imported electricity is explored. Using a techno-economic linear capacity optimization, exports of renewable electricity from Morocco and Tunisia to CERN in Geneva, Switzerland in the context of large research facilities are modeled. Two different energy supply chains are considered, direct imports of electricity by HVDC transmission lin

SUBMITTER: Hampp J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10852270 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature