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EDC Serial Number EDC0000162
Title Variable Renewable Energy Impacts
Data Location https://data.ukedc.rl.ac.uk/browse/edc/Electricity/intermittency/
EDC Stored Dataset
Description These files are the core subset of the updated and expanded versions of the data originally collated for the UKERC "Costs and Impacts of Intermittency - 2016 update" project, see https://ukerc.ac.uk/project/the-intermittency-report/. This dataset includes the references, costs and impacts from this systematic review of the evidence on the costs and impacts of intermittent electricity generation technologies.
DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ukerc.edc.000010
Sector Commercial
Coverage World
Start: 01/01/2006
End: 10/09/2020
Usage Rights for this Data Open Access
This data may be freely used for any purpose
Data Type Aggregated
Parameter Names Data sources, operating reserve costs, capacity credit, capacity costs, aggregated integration costs, temporal profile costs, curtailment level.
Units 462 x Reviewed data sources
Number of Records 1600
IEA Category Renewable Energy Sources
Creator of the Data Collated from the original sources by Phil Heptonstall
Data made available by Phil Heptonstall, UKERC
Format text/csv
Language English
Project Variable Renewable Energy Impacts A systematic review of the costs and impacts of integrating variable renewables into power grids for a UKERC report ‘UKERC Costs and Impacts of Intermittency - 2016 update’ and updated for a 2020 paper in the journal Nature Energy ’A systematic review of the costs and impacts of integrating variable renewables into power grids’.
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Other Information These files are the core subset of the updated and expanded versions of the data originally collated for the UKERC "Costs and Impacts of Intermittency - 2016 update" project, see https://ukerc.ac.uk/project/the-intermittency-report/.
The dataset was further updated and expanded for a 2020 paper in Nature Energy "A systematic review of the costs and impacts of integrating variable renewables into power grids" - https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00695-4