The role of wind-solar hybrid plants in mitigating renewable energy-droughts

A Gangopadhyay, AK Seshadri, NJ Sparks, R Toumi - Renewable Energy, 2022 - Elsevier
Increasing the share of weather-dependent renewables in the electricity grid is essential to
deeply decarbonize the electricity system. Wind and solar “droughts” or low generation days …

[HTML][HTML] Low-wind climatology (1979–2018) over Europe from ERA5 reanalysis

C Gutiérrez, M Molina, M Ortega, N López-Franca… - Climate Dynamics, 2024 - Springer
Research on wind speed characteristics is of interest for many disciplines from renewable
energy to ecology. Whereas mean values and trends are commonly studied, less attentions …

Beneficial role of diurnal smoothing for grid integration of wind power

A Gangopadhyay, AK Seshadri… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Smoothing of generation variability, ie reduction of variance in the aggregate generation is
crucial for grid integration of large-scale wind power plants. Prior studies of smoothing have …