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Towards a zero-carbon electricity system for india in 2050: Ideea model-based scenarios integrating wind and solar complementarity and geospatial endowments

Lugovoy, O and Jyothiprakash, V and Chatterjee, S and Sharma, S and Mukherjee, A and Das, A and Thakur, B and Some, S and Dinesha, DL and Das, N and Bosu, P and Padhi, L and Roy, B and Debsarkar, A and Patil, B and Dasgupta, S and Roy, J (2021) Towards a zero-carbon electricity system for india in 2050: Ideea model-based scenarios integrating wind and solar complementarity and geospatial endowments. In: Energies, 14 (21).

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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.3390/en14217063

Abstract

This study evaluated a potential transition of India�s power sector to 100 wind and solar energy sources. Applying a macro-energy IDEEA (Indian Zero Carbon Energy Pathways) model to 32 regions and 114 locations of potential installation of wind energy and 60 locations of solar energy, we evaluated a 100 renewable power system in India as a concept. We considered 153 scenarios with varying sets of generating and balancing technologies to evaluate each intermittent energy source separately and their complementarity. Our analysis confirms the potential technical feasibility and long-term reliability of a 100 renewable system for India, even with solar and wind energy only. Such a dual energy source system can potentially deliver fivefold the annual demand of 2019. The robust, reliable supply can be achieved in the long term, as verified by 41 years of weather data. The required expansion of energy storage and the grid will depend on the wind and solar energy structure and the types of generating technologies. Solar energy mostly requires intraday balancing that can be achieved through storage or demand-side flexibility. Wind energy is more seasonal and spatially scattered, and benefits from the long-distance grid expansion for balancing. The comple-mentarity of the two resources on a spatial scale reduces requirements for energy storage. The de-mand-side flexibility is the key in developing low-cost supply with minimum curtailments. This can be potentially achieved with the proposed two-level electricity market where electricity prices reflect variability of the supply. A modelled experiment with price signals demonstrates how balancing capacity depends on the price levels of guaranteed and flexible types of loads, and therefore, can be defined by the market. © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: Energies
Publisher: MDPI
Additional Information: The copyright for this article belongs to Authors
Keywords: Carbon; Costs; Digital storage; Electric energy storage; Expansion; Power markets; Reliability analysis; Solar energy, Decarbonisation; Electricity system; Energy model; Energy source; High-renewable power system; IDEEA model; Net-zero emission; Renewable power systems; Zero carbons; Zero emission, Wind power
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering
Date Deposited: 22 Nov 2021 10:49
Last Modified: 22 Nov 2021 10:49
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/70547

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