Wind energy resource over Europe under CMIP6 future climate projections: What changes from CMIP5 to CMIP6

D. Carvalho, A. Rocha, X. Costoya, M. deCastro and M. Gómez-Gesteira

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021, vol. 151, issue C

Abstract: The impacts of climate change on the future European wind resource were investigated according to two of the latest future climate scenarios of CMIP6. Towards the end of the current century SSP2-4.5 projects that some small localized areas can experience an increase in the future wind energy resource (around 15–30 % in eastern Ukraine and Turkey). However, all other European areas will experience a significant decrease (5–15 %), particularly towards the end of the current century in the British Isles, Poland, western Ukraine and northern Norway (10–20 %). For the same time period, SSP5-8.5 projects a decrease in future wind energy resource in practically all of Europe (10–20 %), particularly at northern Norway, Poland and western Ukraine (25–30 %). There is significant uncertainty in changes in the wind resource inter- and intra-annual variability, although SSP2-4.5 projects an increase of the latter over Iberia and eastern Ukraine.

Keywords: Climate change; Wind energy; Global warming; CMIP6; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2021.111594

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