Complementarity assessment of south Greenland katabatic flows and West Europe wind regimes

David Radu, Mathias Berger, Raphaël Fonteneau, Simon Hardy, Xavier Fettweis, Marc Le Du, Patrick Panciatici, Lucian Balea and Damien Ernst

Energy, 2019, vol. 175, issue C, 393-401

Abstract: Current global environmental challenges require vigorous and diverse actions in the energy sector. One solution that has recently attracted interest consists in harnessing high-quality variable renewable energy resources in remote locations, while using transmission links to transport the power to end users. In this context, a comparison of western European and Greenland wind regimes is proposed. By leveraging a regional atmospheric model specifically designed to accurately capture polar phenomena, local climatic features of southern Greenland are identified to be particularly conducive to extensive renewable electricity generation from wind. A methodology to assess how connecting remote locations to major demand centres would benefit the latter from a resource availability standpoint is introduced and applied to the aforementioned Europe-Greenland case study, showing superior and complementary wind generation potential in the considered region of Greenland with respect to selected European sites.

Keywords: Wind energy; Renewable resource assessment; Remote renewable energy harvesting; Greenland (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2019.03.048

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