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Complementarity of hydro, wind and solar power as a base for a 100% RE energy supply: South America as an example

  • September 2015
DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.2203.0569
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Christian Breyer
Christian Breyer
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Larissa Noel at Escola Superior de Agricultura "Luiz de Queiroz"
Larissa Noel
Dmitrii Bogdanov at Lappeenranta – Lahti University of Technology LUT
Dmitrii Bogdanov
Pasi Vainikka at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Pasi Vainikka
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Presentation on the occasion of the Rio 15 – World Climate & Energy Event in Rio de Janeiro on September 4, 2015.

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... Other research aggregates the sub-regions, so that the world can be represented by 23 regions [37], or an integrated analysis for Europe-Eurasia-MENA [38] or the East Asian Super Grid [39], all in full hourly resolution and interconnected. The 9 major regions are: Europe [40], Eurasia [41], MENA [42], Sub-Saharan Africa [43], India/ SAARC [32], Northeast Asia [30], Southeast Asia and Pacific [44,45], North America [46] and South America [47,48]. Solar PV is represented in the model by ground-mounted optimally tilted and single-axis tracking PV power plants and prosumer rooftop systems, enhanced by batteries in the cases of financial attractiveness for the prosumers. ...
... More detailed results are shown for all 145 sub-regions globally aggregated to the nine major regions for Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia and India/SAARC (Fig. 4), Europe and Eurasia (Fig. 5), MENA and Sub-Saharan Africa (Fig. 6) and North America and South America (Fig. 7). Detailed information on all 145 sub-regions can be found in the respective publications [30,32,[40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48]. ...
... [42] and Sub-Saharan Africa (right) [43]. [46] and South America (bottom) [47,48]. ...
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