Balancing Europe’s wind-power output through spatial deployment informed by weather regimes

Christian M. Grams (), Remo Beerli, Stefan Pfenninger, Iain Staffell and Heini Wernli ()
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Christian M. Grams: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Remo Beerli: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
Stefan Pfenninger: Climate Policy Group, Institute for Environmental Decisions
Heini Wernli: Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science

Nature Climate Change, 2017, vol. 7, issue 8, 557-562

Abstract: Weather regimes drive variability in wind-power generation across Europe, affecting energy security. Strategically deployed wind turbines in regions of contrasting weather regime behaviour can be used to balance wind capacity and minimize output variability.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1038/nclimate3338

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