Solar and wind grid system value in the United States: The effect of transmission congestion, generation profiles, and curtailment

Wind power costs driven by innovation and experience with further reductions on the horizon

(2021) Philipp Beiter et al.   Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Energy and Environment

Solar photovoltaics is ready to power a sustainable future

(2021) Marta Victoria et al.   Joule

A continuously updated, geospatially rectified database of utility-scale wind turbines in the United States

(2020) Joseph T. Rand et al.   Scientific Data

The ERA5 Global Reanalysis

(2020) Hans Hersbach et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

System-level performance and degradation of 21 GWDC of utility-scale PV plants in the United States

(2020) Mark Bolinger et al.   Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy

Learning is not enough: Diminishing marginal revenues and increasing abatement costs of wind and solar

(2020) Saptarshi Das et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

How Does Wind Project Performance Change with Age in the United States?

(2020) Sofia D. Hamilton et al.   Joule

Variable renewable energy technologies in the Turkish electricity market: Quantile regression analysis of the merit-order effect

(2020) Selahattin Murat Sirin et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Analysis of curtailment at The Geysers geothermal Field, California

(2020) Patrick Dobson et al.   GEOTHERMICS

Too much of a good thing? Global trends in the curtailment of solar PV

(2020) Eric O'Shaughnessy et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Regional disparities in emissions reduction and net trade from renewables

(2020) Harrison Fell et al.   Nature Sustainability

Exnovating for a renewable energy transition

(2019) Debra J. Davidson   Nature Energy

The merit order effect of wind and river type hydroelectricity generation on Turkish electricity prices

(2019) Berkan Acar et al.   ENERGY POLICY

The effect of wind and solar power generation on wholesale electricity prices in Australia

(2019) Zsuzsanna Csereklyei et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Impacts of wind and solar spatial diversification on its market value: A case study of the Chilean electricity market

(2019) Rodrigo Pérez Odeh et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Grand challenges in the science of wind energy

(2019) Paul Veers et al.   SCIENCE

Spatial and temporal variation in the value of solar power across United States electricity markets

(2019) Patrick R. Brown et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

Photovoltaic and wind power feed-in impact on electricity prices: The case of Germany

(2018) François Benhmad et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Turn Down for What? The Economic Value of Operational Flexibility in Electricity Markets

(2018) John Bistline   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS

The National Solar Radiation Data Base (NSRDB)

(2018) Manajit Sengupta et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

ERA5: The new champion of wind power modelling?

(2018) Jon Olauson   RENEWABLE ENERGY

Slovak electricity market and the price merit order effect of photovoltaics

(2018) Karel Janda   ENERGY POLICY

Influence of Wind Power on Intraday Electricity Spot Market: A Comparative Study Based on Real Data

(2018) Pedro Frade et al.   Energies

Timescales of energy storage needed for reducing renewable energy curtailment

(2018) Paul Denholm et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

The “Merit-order effect” of wind and solar power: Volatility and determinants

(2018) Nuno Carvalho Figueiredo et al.   RENEWABLE & SUSTAINABLE ENERGY REVIEWS

The Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications, Version 2 (MERRA-2)

(2017) Ronald Gelaro et al.   JOURNAL OF CLIMATE

The climate and air-quality benefits of wind and solar power in the United States

(2017) Dev Millstein et al.   Nature Energy

The underestimated potential of solar energy to mitigate climate change

(2017) Felix Creutzig et al.   Nature Energy

The benefits of flexibility: The value of wind energy with hydropower

(2016) Lion Hirth   APPLIED ENERGY

Flexibility mechanisms and pathways to a highly renewable US electricity future

(2016) Bethany A. Frew et al.   ENERGY

Why Wind Is Not Coal: On the Economics of Electricity Generation

(2016) Lion Hirth et al.   ENERGY JOURNAL

Merit-order effects of renewable energy and price divergence in California’s day-ahead and real-time electricity markets

(2016) C.K. Woo et al.   ENERGY POLICY

A retrospective analysis of benefits and impacts of U.S. renewable portfolio standards

(2016) Galen Barbose et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Solar power needs a more ambitious cost target

(2016) Varun Sivaram et al.   Nature Energy

Strategies to mitigate declines in the economic value of wind and solar at high penetration in California

(2015) Andrew D. Mills et al.   APPLIED ENERGY

The Optimal Share of Variable Renewables: How the Variability of Wind and Solar Power affects their Welfare-optimal Deployment

(2015) Lion Hirth   ENERGY JOURNAL

The effects of renewables in space and time: A regime switching model of the Italian power price

(2015) Alessandro Sapio   ENERGY POLICY

Market value of solar power: Is photovoltaics cost-competitive?

(2015) Lion Hirth   IET Renewable Power Generation

Integration costs revisited – An economic framework for wind and solar variability

(2015) Lion Hirth et al.   RENEWABLE ENERGY

System LCOE: What are the costs of variable renewables?

(2014) Falko Ueckerdt et al.   ENERGY

Envisioning a renewable electricity future for the United States

(2013) Trieu Mai et al.   ENERGY

The Impact of Wind Generation on Wholesale Electricity Prices in the Hydro-Rich Pacific Northwest

(2013) Chi-Keung Woo et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS

Wind Power and Electricity Prices at the PJM Market

(2013) Hugo A. Gil et al.   IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS

The impact of wind generation on the electricity spot-market price level and variance: The Texas experience

(2011) C.K. Woo et al.   ENERGY POLICY

Grid flexibility and storage required to achieve very high penetration of variable renewable electricity

(2011) Paul Denholm et al.   ENERGY POLICY