Home-made or imported: On the possibility for renewable electricity autarky on all scales in Europe

Because solar and wind resources are available throughout Europe, a transition to an electricity system based on renewables could simultaneously be a transition to an autarkic one. We investigate to which extent electricity autarky on different levels is possible in Europe, from the continental, to...

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Main Authors: Tim Tröndle, Stefan Pfenninger, Johan Lilliestam
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-11-01
Series:Energy Strategy Reviews
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2211467X19300811