Burden on hydropower units for short-term balancing of renewable power systems

Quantifying burden on hydropower units for balancing variable renewable energy sources has been uncertain and difficult. Herein Yang et al. propose a framework and characterize the burden, performance and compensation of hydropower regulation of renewable power systems.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Weijia Yang, Per Norrlund, Linn Saarinen, Adam Witt, Brennan Smith, Jiandong Yang, Urban Lundin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-07-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05060-4
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Summary:Quantifying burden on hydropower units for balancing variable renewable energy sources has been uncertain and difficult. Herein Yang et al. propose a framework and characterize the burden, performance and compensation of hydropower regulation of renewable power systems.
ISSN:2041-1723