Climate influence on compound solar and wind droughts in Australia

D Richardson, AJ Pitman, NN Ridder - npj Climate and Atmospheric …, 2023 - nature.com
Solar photovoltaic and wind power are central to Australia's renewable energy future,
implying an energy sector vulnerable to weather and climate variability. Alignment of …

The role of electric grid research in addressing climate change

L Xie, S Majumder, T Huang, Q Zhang, P Chang… - Nature Climate …, 2024 - nature.com
Addressing the urgency of climate change necessitates a coordinated and inclusive effort
from all relevant stakeholders. Critical to this effort is the modelling, analysis, control and …

Multi-scale variability of southeastern Australian wind resources

CL Vincent, AJ Dowdy - Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 2024 - acp.copernicus.org
There is growing need to understand wind variability in various regions throughout the
world, including in relation to wind energy resources. Here we examine wind variability in …

The impact of future UK offshore wind farm distribution and climate change on generation performance and variability

J Giddings, H Bloomfield, R James… - Environmental Research …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The UK plans to significantly increase offshore wind generation capacity as part of the effort
to achieve net zero targets. Current installation is densely located in a few areas, particularly …

Using power system modelling outputs to identify weather-induced extreme events in highly renewable systems

A Grochowicz, K van Greevenbroek… - Environmental …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In highly renewable power systems the increased weather dependence can result in new
resilience challenges, such as renewable energy droughts, or a lack of sufficient renewable …

Predicting Australian energy demand variability using weather data and machine learning

D Richardson, S Hobeichi, L Sweet… - Environmental …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Managing energy systems requires understanding the variability of energy demand, which
on daily timescales is driven primarily by the weather. Historical records of demand typically …

Resilience and weather uncertainty in energy system models: Near-optimal spaces, weather variability and extremes

A Grochowicz - 2024 - duo.uio.no
The climate crisis and low-cost renewable technologies are driving a global energy
revolution. However, switching to renewables relies on unpredictable weather. My thesis …

Validation of Barra2 and Comparison with Merra-2, and Era5 Using Historical Wind Power Generation

G Palmer, R Dargaville, CH Su, C Wang… - Available at SSRN … - papers.ssrn.com
Atmospheric reanalyses are a popular source of wind speed for energy modelling but are
known to exhibit biases. This study assesses the Australian BARRA-R2 atmospheric …