… Our results do not account for realistic power system specifications. Rather, we examine
fundamental geophysical constraints on wind- and solar-dominated power systems …

… of global, hourly weather data to assess the geophysical resource characteristics of solar and
wind power … We find that achieving ∼80% of demand met by solar and wind requires a US-…

… The main new challenge is the maximum solar or wind power available at a single
location varies over minutes, hours, and days, and this variation generally does not match the …

… In order to calculate the global potential of wind energy, we use a top–… energy contained
in the atmosphere, and this amount is restricted by several constraints that subtract the energy …

… Geophysical constraints on the reliability of solar and wind … microcosm of the broader global
energy transition, we uncover … speed data is interpolated to 100 m, which is the wind turbine …

… to clean, perpetual, and reliable energy at low cost … limitations on expanding supply (Lifton,
2009, Reisman, 2009). Therefore, it seems likely that a rapid global expansion of wind power …

… estimation of the reliability of wind and solar resources in future … sets for wind and solar energy
production with global coverage … of solar PV and wind turbines could also be substantially …

… global and seasonal estimates of the “practical” wind power … the instantaneous wind power
of a modern 5 MW wind turbine at … A limitation of this study is that topography is not resolved …

… For the first time, more solar PV than wind power capacity was added worldwide. By the end
of 2013, … Having reliable resources definitions and assessment are equally important for the …