Assessment of wind and solar power in global low-carbon energy scenarios: An introduction

Gunnar Luderer (1) , Robert C. Pietzcker (1) , Samuel Carrara (2) , Harmen-Sytze de Boer (3, 4, 5) , Shinichiro Fujimori (6) , Nils Johnson (7) , Silvana Mima (8) , Douglas Arent (9)

1 PIK - Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
2 FEEM - Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
3 Department of Systematic Biology [Uppsala]
4 Natural History Museum [Oslo]
5 Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden]
6 NIES - National Institute for Environmental Studies
7 Grant Institute, School of GeoSciences
8 GAEL - Laboratoire d'Economie Appliquée de Grenoble
9 National Renewable Energy Laboratory

This preface introduces the special section on the assessment of wind and solar in global low-carbon energy scenarios. The special section documents the results of a coordinated research effort to improve the representation of variable renewable energies (VRE), including wind and solar power, in Integrated Assessment Models (IAM) and presents an overview of the results obtained in the underlying coordinated model inter-comparison exercise.

Mots clés: Integrated Assessment Modeling; Climate Change Mitigation; Electricity Supply; System Integration Challenges; Variable Renewable Energy; Wind and Solar Power

Domaines: Economies et finances

Gunnar Luderer, Robert C. Pietzcker, Samuel Carrara, Harmen-Sytze de Boer, Shinichiro Fujimori, et al.. Assessment of wind and solar power in global low-carbon energy scenarios: An introduction. Energy Economics, 2017, 64, pp.542-551. ⟨10.1016/j.eneco.2017.03.027⟩. ⟨hal-01515408⟩