A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A climatology of weather-driven anomalies in European photovoltaic and wind power production

Published:2024-02-01 Issue:1 Volume:5 Page:
ISSN:2662-4435
Container-title:Communications Earth & Environment
language:en
Short-container-title:Commun Earth Environ

Author:

Ho-Tran Linh^ORCID,Fiedler Stephanie

Abstract

AbstractWeather causes extremes in photovoltaic and wind power production. Here we present a comprehensive climatology of anomalies in photovoltaic and wind power production associated with weather patterns in Europe considering the 2019 and potential 2050 installations, and hourly to ten-day events. To that end, we performed kilometer-scale numerical simulations of hourly power production for 23 years and paired the output with a weather classification which allows a detailed assessment of weather-driven spatio-temporal production anomalies. Our results highlight the dependency of low-power production events on the installed capacities and the event duration. South-shifted Westerlies (Anticyclonic South-Easterlies) are associated with the lowest hourly (ten-day) extremes for the 2050 (both) installations. Regional power production anomalies can differ from the ones in the European mean. Our findings suggest that weather patterns can serve as indicators for expected photovoltaic and wind power production anomalies and may be useful for early warnings in the energy sector.

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

Link

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01224-x.pdf

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