 Estimates of the marginal curtailment rates for solar and wind generationKevin Novan and Yingzi Wang Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2024, vol. 124, issue C Abstract: As the amount of solar and wind generation capacity installed in a region grows, there will increasingly be periods during which a portion of the potential renewable generation will need to be curtailed to maintain the stability of the electric grid. Across markets worldwide, average curtailment rates for wind and solar are generally quite low, often around 3%. However, these low average curtailment rates may overstate how much renewable supply increases as a result of further increases in renewable capacity. Using historical hourly generation and curtailment data from California’s electricity market, we estimate that only 91% of the output supplied by new solar capacity goes towards increasing the state’s renewable supply — with the remaining 9% being discarded in the form of increased curtailments. Keywords: Renewable electricity; Curtailment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:jeeman:v:124:y:2024:i:c:s0095069624000044 DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2024.102930 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management is currently edited by M.A. Cole, A. Lange, D.J. Phaneuf, D. Popp, M.J. Roberts, M.D. Smith, C. Timmins, Q. Weninger and A.J. Yates More articles in Journal of Environmental Economics and Management from Elsevier |
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