期刊
RENEWABLE ENERGY
卷 178, 期 -, 页码 1187-1197出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2021.06.093
关键词
Excess renewable electricity; Energy storage; Renewable curtailment; Greenhouse gas reduction
资金
- Southern California Gas Company
The study investigates the cost-optimal level of curtailment allowed in developing fully decarbonized electricity systems and finds that allowing some curtailment can significantly reduce the cost of building a fully decarbonized electricity system by a factor of 3.
Climate change mitigation requires developing zero-carbon, highly renewable energy systems, which require technologies to capture excess renewable electricity such as energy storage. Endeavoring to capture all available excess renewable electricity, however, may require large energy storage capacities and costs. This study therefore investigates how much curtailment is cost-optimal to allow in developing fully decarbonized electricity systems, using compliance with California's Senate Bill 100 goal as a representative case study. We combine electric grid dispatch modeling with an optimization approach for selecting the composition of energy storage technologies to capture excess renewable electricity to minimize overall system costs. We found that overbuilding cheap wind and solar and allowing the curtailment of excess renewable electricity equivalent to 25-43% of the total annual electric load resulted in the lowest cumulative systemwide cost for a fully decarbonized electricity system of about $1.8 trillion, spent between 2020 and 2045. Allowing no renewable curtailment results in significant battery requirements and a cumulative systemwide cost of $5.2 trillion spent between 2020 and 2045. Therefore, allowing some curtailment reduced the cost of building a fully decarbonized electricity system by a factor of 3 when the portfolio of technologies to capture and manage excess renewable electricity is carefully chosen. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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